fearán

Irish

Alternative forms

• féarán

Etymology

From Old Irish ferán (“little man, mannikin”), from fer (“man”); equivalent to fear (“man”) +‎ -án (diminutive suffix).

Noun

fearán m (genitive singular fearáin, nominative plural fearáin)

1. dove

Declension

Declension of fearán

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative fearán fearáin Vocative a fhearáin a fhearána Genitive fearáin fearán Dative fearán fearáin

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an fearán na fearáin Genitive an fhearáin na bhfearán Dative leis an bhfearán don fhearán leis na fearáin

Synonyms

• colm
• colúr

Derived terms

• fearán baicdhubh (“collared dove”)
• fearán binne (“rock-dove”)
• fearán breac, fearán eidhinn (“turtle-dove”)

 

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
fearán	fhearán	bhfearán
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “fearán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ferán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language