fòirneis

See also: foirnéis

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old French fornais (compare Irish foirnéis, Manx furnish), from Latin fornāx.

Noun

fòirneis f (genitive singular fòirneise, plural fòirneisean)

1. furnace

Mutation

Mutation of fòirneis

radical	lenition
fòirneis	fhòirneis

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

References

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “fòirneis”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 foirnéis”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language