feon

Esperanto

Noun

feon

  1. accusative singular of feo

Irish

Noun

feon m (genitive singular feoin, nominative plural feoin)

  1. Alternative form of feothan (“breeze, gust”)

Declension
Declension of feon

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative feon feoin
Vocative a fheoin a fheona
Genitive feoin feon
Dative feon feoin

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an feon na feoin
Genitive an fheoin na bhfeon
Dative leis an bhfeon

don fheon

 leis na feoin

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
feon fheon bhfeon
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Old English

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /fe͜oːn/

Verb

fēon (contracted)

  1. Alternative form of fēoġan

Old French

Alternative forms

Etymology

From an earlier *feḍon, from Vulgar Latin *fētōnem. Attested in Philippe de Thaon's Bestiare.[1]

Pronunciation
  • (classical, late) IPA(key): /fəˈun/, /faˈun/, /fuˈun/

Noun

feon oblique singular, m (oblique plural feons, nominative singular feons, nominative plural feon)

  1. whelp (young animal)
  2. fawn (young deer)

Descendants
  • Franc-Comtois: fion
  • Lorrain: fawon, fâyon, fowon
  • Middle French: faon, fan
  • → Middle English: foun, faon, fawne, ffowen, foine, foowne, fowen, fown

References
  1. “feon”, in DEAF: Dictionnaire Étymologique de l'Ancien Français, Heidelberg: Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1968-.
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