dèan

See also: dean, Dean, déan, and deán

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish ·dénai, prototonic form of do·gní.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʲian/

Verb

dèan (past rinn, future nì, verbal noun dèanamh, past participle dèanta)

1. do
2. make

Conjugation

Tense \ Voice	Active	Passive
Present	a' dèanamh	--
Past	rinn	rinneadh
Future	nì	nithear
Conditional	dhèanadh	dhèantadh

Derived terms

• dèan adhradh (“worship”)
• dèan briogadh clì (“left-click”)
• dèan briogadh deis (“right-click”)
• dèan bun no bàrr (“make head or tail”)
• dèan casad (“cough”)
• dèan casaid (“complain”)
• dèan coimeas air (“compare”)
• dèan dìmeas air (“despise”)
• dèan dranndan (“snarl”)
• dèan dùrdail (“coo”)
• dèan fàite-gàire (“smile”)
• dèan farchluais (“eavesdrop”)
• dèan fead (“whistle”)
• dèan feum de (“use”)
• dèan fiughair ri (“look forward to”)
• dèan gàire (“smile; laugh”)
• dèan glugan (“gurgle”)
• dèan in-imrich (“immigrate”)
• dèan lethbhreac (“copy”)
• dèan preasarlach (“coppice”)
• dèan rèite (“atone”)
• dèan sèist air (“besiege”)
• dèan snodha-gàire (“smile”)
• dèanta (“done, made”)
• ionnsaich do sheanmhair lit' a dhèanamh (“teach grandmother how to suck eggs”)

 

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “do·gní”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Edward Dwelly (1911) “dèan”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN