Flóndras

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle English Flaunders, Flaundress, flawndirs, from Old French Flandres, from Middle Dutch Vlâendren. Compare Scottish Gaelic Flannras.

Proper noun

Flóndras m (genitive Flóndrais)

  1. Flanders (a historical region and modern administrative region in the north of Belgium, consisting of the Dutch-speaking area of Belgium)
  2. Flanders (a historical county and cultural region of Western Europe, at its maximum covering most of Belgium, parts of northeast France, and a corner of the Netherlands; in full, County of Flanders)
  3. Flanders (two provinces in Belgian Flanders, West Flanders and East Flanders)

Mutation

Mutated forms of Flóndras
radical lenition eclipsis
Flóndras Fhlóndras bhFlóndras

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

References

  1. ^ “Flóndras”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “Plóndras”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 849; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN

Further reading

  • Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “Flóndras”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 464; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN
  • “Flanders”, in Parallel English–Irish Corpus of Legislation‎[1], 2025, retrieved 13:58, May 14, 2025 (UTC)
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