firéan

See also: fíréan

Irish

Etymology

From fear (“man”) +‎ éan (“bird”).

Noun

firéan m (genitive singular firéin, nominative plural firéin)

(obsolete) male bird, cock

Inflection

Declension of firéan

First declension

Bare forms:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	firéan	firéin
Vocative	a fhiréin	a fhiréana
Genitive	firéin	firéan
Dative	firéan	firéin

Forms with the definite article:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an firéan	na firéin
Genitive	an fhiréin	na bhfiréan
Dative	leis an bhfiréan don fhiréan	leis na firéin

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
firéan	fhiréan	bhfiréan
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “firéan”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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