fána
Appearance
Eastern Maninkakan
[edit]Alternative scripts
[edit]- ߝߣߊ߫ (nko)
Particle
[edit]fána
Icelandic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from New Latin fauna, from Latin Fauna (“name of a rural goddess”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]fána f (genitive singular fánu, nominative plural fánur)
Declension
[edit]singular | plural | |||
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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
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Munster) IPA(key): /ˈfˠɑːn̪ˠə/
- (Connacht) IPA(key): /ˈfˠɑːnˠə/, /ˈfˠɑːn̪ˠə/[1]
- (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈfˠaːnˠə/, /ˈfˠaːn̪ˠə/
Etymology 1
[edit]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
[edit]Noun
[edit]fána f (genitive singular fána, nominative plural fánaí)
Declension
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Derived terms
[edit]- le fána (“down, away”)
Further reading
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “fána”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Etymology 2
[edit]Contraction
[edit]fána
Alternative forms
[edit]Mutation
[edit]radical | lenition | eclipsis |
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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
[edit]- ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 105
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “wagno”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 401-02
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