gean

From Middle French guine (modern French guigne).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɡiːn/
• Rhymes: -iːn

gean (plural geans)

1. (now dialectal) A wild cherry tree, Prunus avium, native to Europe and western Asia or its small, dark fruit.
   • 1947 [1939], Ernst Jünger, translated by Stuart Hood, On the Marble Cliffs, New Directions, translation of Auf den Marmorklippen (in German), →LCCN, →OCLC, page 12:

     Thus in the early year the blue pearl clusters of the grape hyacinth bloomed, and in autumn the geans rejoiced us with the red Chinese lantern gleam of their fruit.

   • 1955, Robin Jenkins, The Cone-Gatherers, Canongate, published 2012, page 45:

     ‘Given the circumstances, Effie,’ he whispered, ‘I could blossom again like a gean-tree.’

• Prunus avium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “gean”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “gean”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

• Agne, Ange, Egan, Gena, agen, gena, nega-

• geanu

gean n

1. soul, spirit

   Synonyms: suflit, duh, stuhico

• geanãm

gean

1. inessive singular of ge

gean

1. accusative singular of gea

From Old Irish gen (“favour, fondness, liking”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ɟan̪ˠ/, /ɟanˠ/^[2]

gean m (genitive singular geana)

1. love, affection

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “gean”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “gean”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “gean”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025

gean

1. accusative/genitive singular of gii

A variant of ġeġn.

• IPA^(key): /jæ͜ɑːn/

ġēan

1. again

From Old Irish gen.

• IPA^(key): /cɛn/

gean m

1. cheerfulness, good humour

• mì-ghean

From Old Frisian gān, from Proto-West Germanic *gān.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɪə̯n/

gean

1. to go

• Gean is often omitted in colloquial speech. It is considered a default verb, so if a sentence has no verb, gean could most probably be inserted for purposes of English translation. It should be noted also that in earlier English, this could also be done; i.e. "We must away" for "We must go away" or "We must leave"
  • Hy wei ― He went away / he has gone away (literally, “he away”)

• (variant past tenses of gean):
  • 1st and 3rd person singular: gong, gyng
  • 2nd person singular: gongst, gyngst
  • plural: gongen, gyngen
  • past participle: gongen.

• “gean”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011