fáinleog

Irish

fáinleog

Alternative forms

• áinleog
• fáinle

Etymology

From early modern Irish áinleóg, from Middle Irish áilleóc, fainleóc (compare Scottish Gaelic ainleag), a diminutive of Old Irish ainnel, fannall, from Proto-Celtic *wesnālā (“swallow”) (compare Welsh gwennol (“swallow, martin”), Cornish guennol, Breton gwenneli), from Proto-Celtic *wesr-/wesn- (“spring”), from Proto-Indo-European *wósr̥ (“spring”).

Noun

fáinleog f (genitive singular fáinleoige, nominative plural fáinleoga)

1. swallow (bird)

Declension

Declension of fáinleog

Second declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative fáinleog fáinleoga Vocative a fháinleog a fháinleoga Genitive fáinleoige fáinleog Dative fáinleog fáinleoga

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an fháinleog na fáinleoga Genitive na fáinleoige na bhfáinleog Dative leis an bhfáinleog don fháinleog leis na fáinleoga

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “fáinleog”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “áilleóc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fainleóc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ainnel”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fannall”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language