soirnéis

Irish

Etymology

Blend of sorn +‎ foirnéis. Apparently attested only in Geoffrey Keating's work Eochair-Sgiath an Aifrinn (literally, ‘Buckler of the Mass’, i.e. an explanatory defense of the Roman Catholic Mass, written ca. 1615), where the phrase ’san tsoirnéis (“in the furnace”) appears twice on p. 114 of the edition edited by Patrick O’Brien and published in 1898.

Noun

soirnéis f

1. (obsolete) furnace

Inflection

No inflected forms are attested, but assuming it was declined exactly like foirnéis, the following forms would be expected:

Declension of soirnéis

Second declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative soirnéis soirnéisí Vocative a shoirnéis a shoirnéisí Genitive soirnéise soirnéisí Dative soirnéis soirnéisí

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an tsoirnéis na soirnéisí Genitive na soirnéise na soirnéisí Dative leis an tsoirnéis don tsoirnéis leis na soirnéisí

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
soirnéis	shoirnéis after an, tsoirnéis	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• “soirnéis”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “soirnéis”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language