foinse

Irish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Irish foinsi n pl (“wells, springs”).[1]

Pronunciation

  • (Munster) IPA(key): /ˈfʷiːnʲʃə/

Noun

foinse f (genitive singular foinse, nominative plural foinsí)

  1. source, origin
  2. spring, fountainhead

Declension

Declension of foinse (fourth declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative foinse foinsí
vocative a fhoinse a fhoinsí
genitive foinse foinsí
dative foinse foinsí
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an fhoinse na foinsí
genitive na foinse na bhfoinsí
dative leis an bhfoinse
don fhoinse 		leis na foinsí

Derived terms

  • foinse abhann (“river-head”)
  • foinse oscailte (“open source”)
  • foinse the (“hot spring”)
  • foinseach (“source, original”, adjective)
  • foinsigh (“well up, spring forth”, verb)

Mutation

Mutated forms of foinse
radical lenition eclipsis
foinse fhoinse bhfoinse

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), “foinsi”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading

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