éan

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ean"

Irish

éan m (genitive singular éin, nominative plural éin)

bird
Luigh leis an uan, agus éirigh leis an éan.
Lie with the lamb, and rise with the bird.
young (of bird)
(by extension) young (of other animals)

Declension of éan (first declension)

forms with the definite article
case	singular	plural
nominative	an t-éan	na héin
genitive	an éin	na n-éan
dative	leis an éan don éan	leis na héin

Mutated forms of *éan*
radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
éan	n-éan	héan	t-éan

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

^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 én”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 16
^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 94
^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 60