eun

Breton

Etymology

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

Numeral

eun

1. one

Irish

Noun

eun m (genitive singular éin, nominative plural éin)

1. Obsolete spelling of éan (“bird”).

Mutation

Mutated forms of eun

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
eun	n-eun	heun	t-eun

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

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

IPA^(key): /ian/

Noun

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

• amar-eun (“birdbath”)
• bìth-eòin (“birdlime”)
• bòrd-eun (“bird table”)
• cù-eunaich (“pointer (dog)”)
• drannd-eun (“hummingbird”)
• eun-an-t-sneachda (“snow bunting”)
• eun-bealltainne (“whimbrel”)
• eun-creiche (“bird of prey”)
• eun-druidh (“augur”)
• eun-eòlaiche (“ornithologist”)
• eun-eòlas (“ornithology”)
• eun-fionn (“hen-harrier”)
• eun-grunnachaidh (“wading bird”)
• eunadair (“fowler”)
• eunadan (“birdcage”)
• eunlaith (“birds, fowl (collective)”)
• eunlann (“aviary”)
• eunsiubhail (“a bird of passage, a straggler”)
• fèath nan eun (“dead calm”, noun)
• taigh-eun (“birdhouse”)

 

Descendants

• English: ardian

Mutation

Mutation of eun

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
eun	n-eun	h-eun	t-eun

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “eun”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 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