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fíon

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See also: fion

Irish

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Etymology

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From Old Irish fín, from Proto-Celtic *wīnom, borrowed from Latin vīnum.[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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fíon m (genitive singular fíona, nominative plural fíonta)

  1. wine

Declension

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Declension of fíon (third declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative fíon fíonta
vocative a fhíon a fhíonta
genitive fíona fíonta
dative fíon fíonta
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an fíon na fíonta
genitive an fhíona na bhfíonta
dative leis an bhfíon
don fhíon
leis na fíonta

Derived terms

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See also

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Mutation

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Mutated forms of fíon
radical lenition eclipsis
fíon fhíon bhfíon

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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  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fín”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 112

Further reading

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