foirnéis

See also: fòirneis

Irish

Etymology

From Old French fornais (compare Manx furnish, Scottish Gaelic fòirneis), from Latin fornāx.

Noun

foirnéis f (genitive singular foirnéise, nominative plural foirnéisí)

  1. furnace

Declension

Declension of foirnéis (second declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative foirnéis foirnéisí
vocative a fhoirnéis a fhoirnéisí
genitive foirnéise foirnéisí
dative foirnéis foirnéisí
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an fhoirnéis na foirnéisí
genitive na foirnéise na bhfoirnéisí
dative leis an bhfoirnéis
don fhoirnéis 		leis na foirnéisí

Derived terms

  • craos foirnéise (“throat of furnace”)
  • foirnéis athghinte (“regenerating furnace”)
  • foirnéis bhruithnithe (“smelting furnace”)
  • foirnéis fhrithspréite (“reverberatory (furnace)”)
  • foirnéis shuaite (“puddling-furnace”)
  • foirnéis soinneáin (“blast-furnace”)
  • foirnéis theallachoscailte (“open-hearth furnace”)
  • gráta foirnéise (“furnace-grate”)
  • mufalfhoirnéis (“muffle-furnace”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of foirnéis
radical lenition eclipsis
foirnéis fhoirnéis bhfoirnéis

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

References

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