foighne

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Unetymological spelling of foidhinne, a regular development from foidhidne which itself is likely a conflation of obsolete foidhidnighe (Old Irish foditnige) and still common foidhide (Old Irish foditiu), which is itself an (irregular?) development of Old Irish fodaitiu (as if fodhaide in modern spelling), verbal noun of fo·daim.[2]

The unetymological spelling with -gh- is attested since at least the 17th century but (unlike the etymological spelling foidhinne) does not allow for the regular derivation of the word's pronunciation as /ˈfˠəiɲə/ (as if spelt foínge) in East Munster and County Cork (excluding the baronies of West Carberry and Bearra), areas where slender nn /n̠ʲ/ has regularly become slender ng /ɲ/ in noninitial position.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfˠəinʲə/

Noun

foighne f (genitive singular foighne)

  1. patience (quality of being patient)

Declension

Declension of foighne (fourth declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative foighne
vocative a fhoighne
genitive foighne
dative foighne
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an fhoighne
genitive na foighne
dative leis an bhfoighne
don fhoighne

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of foighne
radical lenition eclipsis
foighne fhoighne bhfoighne

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

References

  1. ^ “foighne”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “foditiu”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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