faisean

Irish

Alternative forms
  • faisiún

Etymology

From English fashion, from Middle English facioun, from Anglo-Norman fechoun, variant of Old French faceon, fazon, façon (“fashion, form, make, outward appearance”), from Latin factiō (“a making”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈfˠaʃən̪ˠ/, /ˈfˠaʃənˠ/

Noun

faisean m (genitive singular faisin, nominative plural faisin)

  1. fashion

Declension
Declension of faisean

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative faisean faisin
Vocative a fhaisin a fhaiseana
Genitive faisin faisean
Dative faisean faisin

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an faisean na faisin
Genitive an fhaisin na bhfaisean
Dative leis an bhfaisean

don fhaisean

 leis na faisin

Derived terms
  • fág an tír nó bí san fhaisean
  • faiseanta

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

Further reading
  • “faisean”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  • Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “faisean”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 295
  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “faisean”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
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