fáinne

See also: fainne and fàinne

English

Noun

fáinne (plural fáinnes or fáinni)

  1. Alternative form of fainne.
    • 2000, Michael O'Sullivan, Brendan Behan: A Life, page 158:
      The Dublin Gaels with their golden fáinnes

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish fáinne,[1] from Old Irish áinne,[2] from Proto-Celtic *ānniyos (“ring”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eh₂n- (“ring”). Possibly cognate with Latin ānus and Old Armenian անուր (anur). The initial f comes from a reinterpretation of áinne as fháinne in leniting environments, leading to fáinne as a back-formation in nonleniting environments. Compare Scottish Gaelic fàinne.

Pronunciation

Noun

fáinne m (genitive singular fáinne, nominative plural fáinní)

  1. ring
    Leis an bhfáinne seo, pósaim thú. ― With this ring, I thee wed.
  2. circle
  3. ringlet, curl
    Synonyms: bachall, búcla, drol, caschiabh, fáinneog, iodh, lúibín
  4. halo

Declension

Declension of fáinne (fourth declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative fáinne fáinní
vocative a fháinne a fháinní
genitive fáinne fáinní
dative fáinne fáinní
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an fáinne na fáinní
genitive an fháinne na bhfáinní
dative leis an bhfáinne
don fháinne 		leis na fáinní

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → English: fainne, Fainne, Fáinne, fáinne, fawny, fawney, phony, phoney (British)
  • → Romani: foni

Mutation

Mutated forms of fáinne
radical lenition eclipsis
fáinne fháinne bhfáinne

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

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fáinne”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “áinne”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 105
  4. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 251, page 90

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