feadhán

Irish

Alternative forms

• feadhan, feagán

Etymology

Uncertain. Dinneen lists it as a specialized sense of feadhain (“band, troop, company of men”), which comes from Old Irish fedan (“act of carrying”). But it could also be from feadh (“length, extent”) +‎ -án or fiodh (“wood”) +‎ -án since wheel rims were originally made of wood.

Pronunciation

• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈfʲɨ̞ɡanˠ/

Noun

feadhán m (genitive singular feadháin, nominative plural feadháin)

1. (Ulster) rim or felloe of a wheel

Declension

Declension of feadhán

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative feadhán feadháin Vocative a fheadháin a fheadhána Genitive feadháin feadhán Dative feadhán feadháin

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an feadhán na feadháin Genitive an fheadháin na bhfeadhán Dative leis an bhfeadhán don fheadhán leis na feadháin

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
feadhán	fheadhán	bhfeadhán
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• “feadhán”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “feaḋan”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “feagan”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society
• Entries containing “felloe” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “feadhán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 42