fiántas

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Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From fiánta +‎ -as.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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fiántas m (genitive singular fiántais, nominative plural)

  1. wildness, savagery, fierceness
  2. wilderness (uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land)

Declension

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
fiántas fhiántas bhfiántas
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ fiántas”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 109

Further reading

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