feidhmeannas

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish fedmandus.[2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfʲəimʲən̪ˠəsˠ/[3]

Noun

feidhmeannas m (genitive singular feidhmeannais)

  1. function, service
  2. executive (branch of government)

Declension

Declension of feidhmeannas (first declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative feidhmeannas
vocative a fheidhmeannais
genitive feidhmeannais
dative feidhmeannas
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an feidhmeannas
genitive an fheidhmeannais
dative leis an bhfeidhmeannas
don fheidhmeannas

Mutation

Mutated forms of feidhmeannas
radical lenition eclipsis
feidhmeannas fheidhmeannas bhfeidhmeannas

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

References

  1. ^ “feidhmeannas”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fedmannas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 287, page 143

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