fánaire

Irish

Etymology

From fán +‎ -aire.

Noun

fánaire m (genitive singular fánaire, nominative plural fánairí)

1. Synonym of fánaí (“wanderer, vagrant; casual worker; potterer; odd, chance, casual, person”)

Declension

Declension of fánaire

Fourth declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative fánaire fánairí Vocative a fhánaire a fhánairí Genitive fánaire fánairí Dative fánaire fánairí

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an fánaire na fánairí Genitive an fhánaire na bhfánairí Dative leis an bhfánaire don fhánaire leis na fánairí

Derived terms

• fánaireacht f (“(act of) wandering, vagrancy; (act of) rambling, roving; hiking; casualness, haphazardness; aimlessness, purposelessness; diminishment, decline; drift”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
fánaire	fhánaire	bhfánaire
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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