feadán

See also: feadan

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish fetán (“a hiss or whistle; a pibe or tube”). By surface analysis, fead +‎ -án.

Noun

feadán m (genitive singular feadáin, nominative plural feadáin)

  1. tube
  2. (anatomy, botany) duct
  3. tubular thing
  4. peg, pin
  5. (geography) watercourse, gully
  6. whistling sound
  7. bronchial wheeze

Declension

Declension of feadán (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative feadán feadáin
vocative a fheadáin a fheadána
genitive feadáin feadán
dative feadán feadáin
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an feadán na feadáin
genitive an fheadáin na bhfeadán
dative leis an bhfeadán
don fheadán 		leis na feadáin

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of feadán
radical lenition eclipsis
feadán fheadán bhfeadán

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

Further reading

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