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Breton
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Breton un, from Old Breton un, from Proto-Brythonic *ʉn.
Numeral
[edit]eun
Irish
[edit]Noun
[edit]eun m (genitive singular éin, nominative plural éin)
Mutation
[edit]| radical | eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
|---|---|---|---|
| eun | n-eun | heun | t-eun |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Scottish Gaelic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish én, from Proto-Celtic *ɸetnos, from Proto-Indo-European *péth₂r̥. Doublet of peann (“pen”). Cognate with English feather, Russian перо́ (peró, “feather”), and dialectal Armenian թեր (tʻer, “leaf, petal”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]eun m (genitive singular eòin, plural eòin)
- bird
- 1987 July 1, Joe Neil MacNeil, John Shaw, Tales Until Dawn: The World of a Cape Breton Gaelic Story-Teller, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, →ISBN, page 276:
- Agus cha bu luaithe a chuir esan an t-eun anns an eunain òrach na thànaig sgriach as an eun a bha oillteil agus dhùisg a h-uile duine a bh' as a' chairteal […]
- And no sooner had he put the bird in the golden birdhouse than came a screech from the bird that was horrible and woke up everyone in the quarter […]
- chicken
Derived terms
[edit]- amar-eun (“birdbath”)
- bìth-eòin (“birdlime”)
- bòrd-eun (“bird table”)
- cù-eunaich (“pointer (dog)”)
- drannd-eun (“hummingbird”)
- eun-an-t-sneachda (“snow bunting”)
- eun-bealltainne (“whimbrel”)
- eun-creiche (“bird of prey”)
- eun-druidh (“augur”)
- eun-eòlaiche (“ornithologist”)
- eun-eòlas (“ornithology”)
- eun-fionn (“hen-harrier”)
- eun-grunnachaidh (“wading bird”)
- eunadair (“fowler”)
- eunadan (“birdcage”)
- eunlaith (“birds, fowl (collective)”)
- eunlann (“aviary”)
- eunsiubhail (“a bird of passage, a straggler”)
- fèath nan eun (“dead calm”, noun)
- taigh-eun (“birdhouse”)
Descendants
[edit]- English: ardian
Mutation
[edit]| radical | eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
|---|---|---|---|
| eun | n-eun | h-eun | t-eun |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
[edit]- Edward Dwelly (1911) “eun”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary][1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 én”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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- Breton lemmas
- Breton numerals
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