léann

See also: leann

Irish

Alternative forms

léigheann (obsolete)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /l̠ʲeːn̪ˠ/
Homophone: léan (all Munster and many Connacht and Ulster varieties)

Etymology 1

From Old Irish légend n (“act of studying”) (verbal noun of légaid, from Latin legendum.

Noun

léann m (genitive singular léinn)

Alternative form of léigheann (“(act of) reading, studying”)
learning; education, study
Ní hualach do dhuine an léann. (proverb)
Learning is no encumbrance.

Tuigeann fear léinn leathfhocal. (proverb)
A word to the wise is sufficient.
(literally, “A man of education understands a hint.”)
form of learning

Derived terms

aos léinn (“scholars”)
léann cogaidh (“training in the art of warfare”)
léann farraige (“training in the art of seamanship”)
léann liteartha (“belles-lettres”)
léannta (“learned, erudite, scholarly”, adj)
lucht léinn (“scholars”)
mac léinn m (“student”, literally “son of learning”)

Related terms

léanntacht f (“learnedness, erudition”)

Further reading

Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “léann”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 60
Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 65

Verb

léann

analytic present of léigh

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