feon

Esperanto

Noun

feon

1. accusative singular of feo

Irish

Noun

feon m (genitive singular feoin, nominative plural feoin)

1. Alternative form of feothan (“breeze, gust”)

Declension

Declension of feon

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative feon feoin Vocative a fheoin a fheona Genitive feoin feon Dative feon feoin

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an feon na feoin Genitive an fheoin na bhfeon Dative leis an bhfeon don fheon leis na feoin

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
feon	fheon	bhfeon
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fe͜oːn/

Verb

fēon (contracted)

1. Alternative form of fēoġan

Old French

Alternative forms

• faon, fan, foun, feoun
• fon, foon, fooun, faun, fououn

Etymology

From an earlier *feḍon, from Vulgar Latin *fētōnem. Attested in Philippe de Thaon's Bestiare.

Pronunciation

• (classical, late) IPA^(key): /fəˈun/, /faˈun/, /fuˈun/

Noun

feon oblique singular, m (oblique plural feons, nominative singular feons, nominative plural feon)

1. whelp (young animal)
2. fawn (young deer)

Descendants

• Franc-Comtois: fion
• Lorrain: fawon, fâyon, fowon
• Middle French: faon, fan
  • French: faon
• → Middle English: foun, faon, fawne, ffowen, foine, foowne, fowen, fown
  • English: fawn

References

• feon on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “*fētō”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 3: D–F, page 486