feadhán

Irish

Alternative forms

feadhan, feagán^[1]

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 But it could also be from feadh (“length, extent”) +‎ -án or fiodh (“wood”) +‎ -án since wheel rims were originally made of wood.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): /ˈfʲɨɡanˠ/^[2]

Noun

feadhán m (genitive singular feadháin, nominative plural feadháin)

(Ulster) rim or felloe of a wheel

Declension

Declension of feadhán (first declension)

bare forms
	singular	plural
nominative	feadhán	feadháin
vocative	a fheadháin	a fheadhána
genitive	feadháin	feadhán
dative	feadhán	feadháin

forms with the definite article
	singular	plural
nominative	an feadhán	na feadháin
genitive	an fheadháin	na bhfeadhán
dative	leis an bhfeadhán don fheadhán	leis na feadháin

Mutation

Mutated forms of *feadhán*
radical	lenition	eclipsis
feadhán	fheadhán	bhfeadhán

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

^ “feadhán”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 106, page 42

Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “feaḋan”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 432; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN
Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “feagán”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 433; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN
de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “felloe”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “feadhán”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

[1] “feadhán”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy

[2] Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 106, page 42

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