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feann

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Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Irish fennaid, denominative from finnae (hair) (compare finnfad), from Proto-Celtic *wendom.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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feann (present analytic feannann, future analytic feannfaidh, verbal noun feannadh, past participle feannta)

  1. to skin, flay
  2. to fleece (con or trick someone out of money)
  3. to strip (take away), plunder
  4. to damn (condemn), slate (criticize harshly)

Conjugation

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Mutation

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Mutated forms of feann
radical lenition eclipsis
feann fheann bhfeann

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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Scottish Gaelic

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Irish fennaid, denominative from finnae (hair) (compare finnfad), from Proto-Celtic *wendom.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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feann (past dh'fheann, future feannaidh, verbal noun feannadh)

  1. flay, skin, fleece
  2. remove turf to get at peat underneath

Mutation

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Mutation of feann
radical lenition
feann fheann

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

Further reading

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