fiántas

Irish

Alternative forms

  • fiántacht
  • fiadhantacht, fiadhantas, fiadhántas, fiadhántus, fiantas (obsolete)[1]

Etymology

From fiáin +‎ -tas.

Pronunciation

Noun

fiántas m (genitive singular fiántais, nominative plural)

  1. wildness, savagery, fierceness
  2. wilderness (uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land)

Declension

Declension of fiántas (first declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative fiántas
vocative a fhiántais
genitive fiántais
dative fiántas
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an fiántas
genitive an fhiántais
dative leis an bhfiántas
don fhiántas

Mutation

Mutated forms of fiántas
radical lenition eclipsis
fiántas fhiántas bhfiántas

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

References

  1. ^ “fiántas”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 109

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