fáinleog

Irish

Alternative forms

  • áilleog, áinleog, áinle, fáinle, fáinleoigín
  • áinleóg, áinnle, fáinleóg, fáinnle, fáinnleog, fáinnleóg (superseded)[1]

Etymology

From early modern Irish áinleóg, from Middle Irish áilleóc,[2] fainleóc[3] (compare Scottish Gaelic ainleag), a diminutive of Old Irish ainnel,[4] fannall,[5] from Proto-Celtic *wesnālā (“swallow”) (compare Welsh gwennol (“swallow, martin”), Cornish guennol, Breton gwenneli), from Proto-Celtic *wesrū (“spring”), from Proto-Indo-European *wósr̥ (“spring”). By surface analysis, fáinle +‎ -óg.

Pronunciation

  • (Aran) IPA(key): /ˈfˠɯːnloːɡ/[6] (as if spelled faoinleog)
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈaːn̠ʲl̠ʲɔɡ/[7] (corresponding to the form áinleog)

Noun

fáinleog f (genitive singular fáinleoige, nominative plural fáinleoga)

  1. swallow (bird) Hirundo rustica

Declension

Declension of fáinleog (second declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative fáinleog fáinleoga
vocative a fháinleog a fháinleoga
genitive fáinleoige fáinleog
dative fáinleog
fáinleoig (archaic, dialectal) 		fáinleoga
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an fháinleog na fáinleoga
genitive na fáinleoige na bhfáinleog
dative leis an bhfáinleog
leis an bhfáinleoig (archaic, dialectal)
don fháinleog
don fháinleoig (archaic, dialectal) 		leis na fáinleoga

Mutation

Mutated forms of fáinleog
radical lenition eclipsis
fáinleog fháinleog bhfáinleog

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

References

  1. ^ “fáinleog”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “áilleóc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fainleóc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  4. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ainnel”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  5. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fannall”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  6. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 119
  7. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 254, page 91

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