fodhuine

Irish

Etymology

From fo- (“lesser; odd, occasional”) +‎ duine (“person”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfˠɔɣɪnʲə/

Noun

fodhuine m (genitive singular fodhuine, nominative plural fodhaoine)

1. inferior person
2. odd, occasional person

Declension

Declension of fodhuine (fourth declension)

bare forms singular plural nominative fodhuine fodhaoine vocative a fhodhuine a fhodhaoine genitive fodhuine fodhaoine dative fodhuine fodhaoine forms with the definite article singular plural nominative an fodhuine na fodhaoine genitive an fhodhuine na bhfodhaoine dative leis an bhfodhuine don fhodhuine leis na fodhaoine

Mutation

Mutated forms of fodhuine

radical	lenition	eclipsis
fodhuine	fhodhuine	bhfodhuine

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

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “fodhuine”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 34