féas

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish fés (“lip; body hair”) (the source of Middle Irish fésóc, modern féasóg).

Noun

féas m (genitive singular féis)

(literary) coarse hair, beard

Declension

Declension of féas

First declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun)

Case	Singular
Nominative	féas
Vocative	a fhéis
Genitive	féis
Dative	féas

Forms with the definite article:

Case	Singular
Nominative	an féas
Genitive	an fhéis
Dative	leis an bhféas don fhéas

Related terms

féasóg f (“beard”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
féas	fhéas	bhféas
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “féas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

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