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fána

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See also: fana, Fana, fanã, and fäna

Eastern Maninkakan

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Alternative scripts

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Particle

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fána

  1. also

Icelandic

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from New Latin fauna, from Latin Fauna (name of a rural goddess).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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fána f (genitive singular fánu, nominative plural fánur)

  1. fauna

Declension

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Declension of fána (feminine)
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative fána fánan fánur fánurnar
accusative fánu fánuna fánur fánurnar
dative fánu fánunni fánum fánunum
genitive fánu fánunnar fána fánanna

Irish

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Old Irish fán, from Proto-Celtic *wāgnā (slope, depression, hollow), hence also Welsh gwaun. Possibly related to Latin vagus (wandering, strolling).[2]

Alternative forms

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Noun

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fána f (genitive singular fána, nominative plural fánaí)

  1. slope, incline, slant
  2. declivity
Declension
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Declension of fána (fourth declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative fána fánaí
vocative a fhána a fhánaí
genitive fána fánaí
dative fána fánaí
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an fhána na fánaí
genitive na fána na bhfánaí
dative leis an bhfána
don fhána
leis na fánaí
Derived terms
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Further reading

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Etymology 2

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Contraction

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fána

  1. Ulster form of faoina (about his/her/their/which)
Alternative forms
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Mutation

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Mutated forms of fána
radical lenition eclipsis
fána fhána bhfána

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

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  1. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 105
  2. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “wagno”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 401-02