foirnéis

See also: fòirneis

Irish

Etymology

From Old French fornais (compare Manx furnish, Scottish Gaelic fòirneis), from Latin fornāx.

Noun

foirnéis f (genitive singular foirnéise, nominative plural foirnéisí)

1. furnace

Declension

Declension of foirnéis (second declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative foirnéis foirnéisí vocative a fhoirnéis a fhoirnéisí genitive foirnéise foirnéisí dative foirnéis foirnéisí forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an fhoirnéis na foirnéisí genitive na foirnéise na bhfoirnéisí dative leis an bhfoirnéis don fhoirnéis leis na foirnéisí

Derived terms

• craos foirnéise (“throat of furnace”)
• foirnéis athghinte (“regenerating furnace”)
• foirnéis bhruithnithe (“smelting furnace”)
• foirnéis fhrithspréite (“reverberatory (furnace)”)
• foirnéis shuaite (“puddling-furnace”)
• foirnéis soinneáin (“blast-furnace”)
• foirnéis theallachoscailte (“open-hearth furnace”)
• gráta foirnéise (“furnace-grate”)
• mufalfhoirnéis (“muffle-furnace”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of foirnéis

radical	lenition	eclipsis
foirnéis	fhoirnéis	bhfoirnéis

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

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “foirnéis”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →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