eun
Breton
Etymology
From Middle Breton un, from Old Breton un, from Proto-Brythonic *ʉn.
Irish
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
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
IPA(key): /ian/
Noun
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
- 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
- English: ardian
Mutation
| Scottish Gaelic mutation | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
| eun | n-eun | h-eun | t-eun |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | |||
References
- Edward Dwelly (1911) “eun”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 én”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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