gean

Borrowed from French guigne.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɡiːn/

gean (plural geans)

1. (now dialectal) A wild cherry tree, Prunus avium, native to Europe and western Asia or its small, dark fruit.
   • 1955, Robin Jenkins, The Cone-Gatherers, Canongate 2012, p. 45:

     ‘Given the circumstances, Effie,’ he whispered, ‘I could blossom again like a gean-tree.’

• Ange, Egan, Gena, agen, gena, nega-

• geanu

gean n

1. soul, spirit

   Synonyms: suflit, duh, stuhico

• geanãm

gean

1. accusative singular of gea

From Old Irish gen (“favour, fondness, liking”).

• IPA^(key): /ɟanˠ/

gean m (genitive singular geana)

1. love, affection

• "gean" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• “2 gen” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
• Entries containing “gean” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “gean” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

gean

1. inflection of gii:
   1. accusative singular
   2. genitive singular

A variant of ġeġn.

• IPA^(key): /jæːɑn/

ġēan

1. again

From Old Irish gen.

gean m

1. cheerfulness, good humour

• mì-ghean

From Old Frisian gān, from Proto-Germanic *gāną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₁- (“to leave”).

gean

1. to go

• Gean is often omitted in colloquial speech. It is considered a default verb, so if a sentence has no verb, gean could most probably be inserted for purposes of English translation. It should be noted also that in earlier English, this could also be done; i.e. "We must away" for "We must go away" or "We must leave"
  • Hy wei ― He went away / he has gone away (literally, “he away”)

• (variant past tenses of gean):
  • 1st and 3rd person singular: gong, gyng
  • 2nd person singular: gongst, gyngst
  • plural: gongen, gyngen
  • past participle: gongen.

• “gean”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011