# gean
## English
### Etymology

From Middle French guine (modern French guigne).

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ɡiːn/
* Rhymes: -iːn

### Noun

gean (plural geans)
* (now dialectal) A wild cherry tree, Prunus avium, native to Europe and western Asia or its small, dark fruit.
** 1947 [1939], Ernst Jünger, translated by Stuart Hood, On the Marble Cliffs, New Directions, translation of Auf den Marmorklippen (in German), →LCCN, →OCLC, page 12:Thus in the early year the blue pearl clusters of the grape hyacinth bloomed, and in autumn the geans rejoiced us with the red Chinese lantern gleam of their fruit.
** 1955, Robin Jenkins, The Cone-Gatherers, Canongate, published 2012, page 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, 2019–2022.
* “gean”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

### Anagrams

* Agne, Ange, Egan, Gena, agen, gena, nega-

## Aromanian
### Alternative forms

* geanu

### Noun

gean n
* soul, spirit
    Synonyms: suflit, duh, stuhico

#### Derived terms

* geanãm

## Basque
### Noun

gean
* inessive singular of ge

## Esperanto
### Adjective

gean
* accusative singular of gea

## Irish
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɟan̪ˠ/, /ɟanˠ/

### Noun

gean m (genitive singular geana)
* love, affection

#### Declension

Third declension

### References

* ↑ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 gen”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
* ↑ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 132

### Further reading

* Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “gean”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
* de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “gean”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
* “gean”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024

## Northern Sami
### Pronoun

gean
* accusative/genitive singular of gii

## Old English
### Etymology

A variant of ġeġn.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /jæ͜ɑːn/

### Adverb

ġēan
* again

## Scottish Gaelic
### Etymology

From Old Irish gen.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /cɛn/

### Noun

gean m
* cheerfulness, good humour

#### Derived terms

* mì-ghean

### Mutation

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

## West Frisian
### Etymology

From Old Frisian gān, from Proto-West Germanic *gān.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡɪə̯n/

### Verb

gean
* 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"
** Hy wei ― He went away / he has gone away (literally, “he away”)

#### Conjugation

* (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