fáinne

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See also: fainne and fàinne

English

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Noun

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fáinne (plural fáinnes or fáinni)

  1. Alternative form of fainne
    • 2000, Michael O'Sullivan, Brendan Behan: A Life, page 158:
      The Dublin Gaels with their golden fáinnes

Irish

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fáinne

Etymology

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From Middle Irish fáinne,[1] form Old Irish áinne,[2] from Proto-Celtic *ānniyos (ring), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eh₂n- (ring). Possibly cognate with Latin ānus and Old Armenian անուր (anur). The initial f comes from a reinterpretation of áinne as fháinne in leniting environments, leading to fáinne as a back-formation in nonleniting environments. Compare Scottish Gaelic fàinne.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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fáinne m (genitive singular fáinne, nominative plural fáinní)

  1. ring
    Leis an bhfáinne seo, pósaim thú.With this ring, I thee wed.
  2. circle
  3. ringlet, curl
    Synonyms: bachall, búcla, drol, caschiabh, fáinneog, iodh, lúibín
  4. halo

Declension

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • English: fainne, phoney, phony
  • Romani: foni

Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
fáinne fháinne bhfáinne
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fáinne”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “áinne”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 105
  4. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 251, page 90

Further reading

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