feidhmeannas

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish fedmandus.[2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfʲəimʲən̪ˠəsˠ/[3]

Noun

feidhmeannas m (genitive singular feidhmeannais)

  1. function, service
  2. executive (branch of government)

Declension

Declension of feidhmeannas (first declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative feidhmeannas
vocative a fheidhmeannais
genitive feidhmeannais
dative feidhmeannas
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an feidhmeannas
genitive an fheidhmeannais
dative leis an bhfeidhmeannas
don fheidhmeannas

Derived terms

  • Feidhmeannas Thuaisceart Éireann (“Northern Ireland Executive”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of feidhmeannas
radical lenition eclipsis
feidhmeannas fheidhmeannas bhfeidhmeannas

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

References

  1. ^ “feidhmeannas”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fedmannas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931), Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 287, page 143

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