different between gean vs gena

English

Etymology

From Middle French guine (modern French guigne).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?i?n/

Noun

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.’

Translations

Further reading

• Prunus avium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “gean”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “gean”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

Anagrams

• Ange, Egan, Gena, agen, gena, nega-

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• geanu

Noun

gean n

1. soul, spirit

   Synonyms: suflit, duh, stuhico

Derived terms

• geanãm

Basque

Noun

gean

1. inessive singular of ge

Esperanto

Adjective

gean

1. accusative singular of gea

Irish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?an?/

Noun

gean m (genitive singular geana)

1. love, affection

Declension

Mutation

Further reading

• "gean" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “2 gen”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• 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.

Northern Sami

Pronoun

gean

1. accusative/genitive singular of gii

Old English

Etymology

A variant of ?e?n.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jæ???n/

Adverb

??an

1. again

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish gen.

Noun

gean m

1. cheerfulness, good humour

Derived terms

• mì-ghean

Mutation

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian g?n, from Proto-West Germanic *g?n.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?????n/

Verb

gean

1. to go

Usage notes

• 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"

Inflection

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

Further reading

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

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin gena (“cheek”). Doublet of chin.

Noun

gena (plural genae)

1. (zoology) The cheek; the feathered side of the under mandible of a bird.
2. (entomology) The part of the head to which the jaws of an insect are attached.
3. (entomology) The part of the head below the compound eyes of Diptera, or an analagous part of the head of larvae without compound eyes.

Anagrams

• Ange, Egan, Gean, agen, gean, nega-

Gaulish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *genus (“jaw, cheek, mouth”), from Proto-Indo-European *?énus (“cheek, jaw, chin”). Compare Welsh gen, Old Irish gin, giun, Latin gena.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ena?/

Noun

gen? f

1. cheek

Declension

Icelandic

Noun

gena

1. indefinite genitive plural of gen

Italian

Etymology

From Latin gena (“cheek”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d???.na/
• Rhymes: -?na
• Hyphenation: gè?na

Noun

gena f (plural gene) (obsolete, literary)

1. cheek

   Synonym: guancia

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *?énu-, *?énus (“chin, jaw, cheek”).

Cognates include Ancient Greek ????? (génus), Sanskrit ??? (hánu), Persian ????? (?âne), Tocharian A ?anwem, Old Armenian ????? (cnawt), Lithuanian žandas, Welsh gen, and Old English ?inn (English chin).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /??e.na/, [???nä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?d??e.na/, [?d????n?]

Noun

gena f (genitive genae); first declension

1. cheek
2. eye socket
3. (rare) eye or eyelid

Declension

First-declension noun.

Synonyms

• (cheek): bucca

Descendants

• Aromanian: dzeanã, dziane
• Italian: gena
• Romanian: gean?

References

• gena in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• gena in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• gena in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• genene (neuter and masculine)

Noun

gena n or m

1. definite neuter plural of gen

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• genane

Noun

gena n or m

1. definite neuter plural of gen

Phuthi

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-jíng?da.

Verb

-géna

1. to enter, to go into [+locative]

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?d??ena]

Noun

gena f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of gen?

Swedish

Etymology

From the adjective gen (“straight, through”), from Old Swedish gen, from Old Norse gegn, from Proto-Germanic *gagin (“against”).

Verb

gena (present genar, preterite genade, supine genat, imperative gena)

1. to take a short cut

Conjugation

Related terms

• gen
• genväg

Anagrams

• Agne, agen, ange, egna