fearnóg

Irish

Alternative forms

  • fernocc, fernog (obsolete)[1]

Etymology

From Old Irish fern +‎ -óg (compare Scottish Gaelic feàrna, Manx farney), from Proto-Celtic *wernā (compare Welsh gwern).

Noun

fearnóg f (genitive singular fearnóige, nominative plural fearnóga)

  1. alder tree

Declension

Declension of fearnóg (second declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative fearnóg fearnóga
vocative a fhearnóg a fhearnóga
genitive fearnóige fearnóg
dative fearnóg
fearnóig (archaic, dialectal) 		fearnóga
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an fhearnóg na fearnóga
genitive na fearnóige na bhfearnóg
dative leis an bhfearnóg
leis an bhfearnóig (archaic, dialectal)
don fhearnóg
don fhearnóig (archaic, dialectal) 		leis na fearnóga

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of fearnóg
radical lenition eclipsis
fearnóg fhearnóg bhfearnóg

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

References

  1. ^ “fearnóg”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy

Further reading

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