fiáin

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Irish[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Middle Irish fíadan,[1] from Old Irish fíad (game, wild animals) (compare Breton gouez), from Proto-Celtic *wēdus, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weydʰh₁-u-s.

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fiáin (genitive singular masculine fiáin, genitive singular feminine fiáine, plural fiáine, comparative fiáine)

  1. wild, uncultivated
  2. wild, undomesticated
  3. uncontrolled
  4. tempestuous
  5. intensely eager
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Etymology 2[edit]

Noun[edit]

fiáin m sg

  1. vocative/genitive singular of fián

Mutation[edit]

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
fiáin fhiáin bhfiáin
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fíadan”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ fiáin”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  3. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 57, page 30
  4. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 77, page 33