eun

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Breton

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Etymology

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From Middle Breton un, from Old Breton un, from Proto-Brythonic *ʉn.

Numeral

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eun

  1. one

Irish

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Noun

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eun m (genitive singular éin, nominative plural éin)

  1. Obsolete spelling of éan (bird).

Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
eun n-eun heun t-eun
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Scottish Gaelic

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Etymology

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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

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IPA(key): /ian/

Noun

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eun m (genitive singular eòin, plural eòin)

  1. 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 []
  2. chicken

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • English: ardian

Mutation

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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

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  • 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