fearnóg

Irish

Alternative forms

• fernocc, fernog (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old Irish fern +‎ -óg (compare Scottish Gaelic feàrna, Manx farney), from Proto-Celtic *wernā (compare Welsh gwern).

Noun

fearnóg f (genitive singular fearnóige, nominative plural fearnóga)

1. alder tree

Declension

Declension of fearnóg (second declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative fearnóg fearnóga vocative a fhearnóg a fhearnóga genitive fearnóige fearnóg dative fearnóg fearnóig (archaic, dialectal) fearnóga forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an fhearnóg na fearnóga genitive na fearnóige na bhfearnóg dative leis an bhfearnóg leis an bhfearnóig (archaic, dialectal) don fhearnóg don fhearnóig (archaic, dialectal) leis na fearnóga

Derived terms

• cuil fhearnóige
• fearnóg ghlas
• fearnóg liath

 

Mutation

Mutated forms of fearnóg

radical	lenition	eclipsis
fearnóg	fhearnóg	bhfearnóg

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

Further reading

• “fearnóg”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fernóc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “fearnóg”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 305
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “fearnóg”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN