fáistine

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Irish

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Etymology

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From Middle Irish fáistine, from Old Irish fáithsine.

Noun

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fáistine f (genitive singular fáistine, nominative plural fáistiní)

  1. (act of) prophesying; prophecy, soothsaying; divination

Declension

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Declension of fáistine (fourth declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative fáistine fáistiní
vocative a fháistine a fháistiní
genitive fáistine fáistiní
dative fáistine fáistiní
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an fháistine na fáistiní
genitive na fáistine na bhfáistiní
dative leis an bhfáistine
don fháistine
leis na fáistiní

Derived terms

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Mutation

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Mutated forms of fáistine
radical lenition eclipsis
fáistine fháistine bhfáistine

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

Further reading

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