fána

See also: fana, Fana, fanã, and fäna

Eastern Maninkakan

Alternative scripts

• ߝߣߊ߫ (nko)

Particle

fána

1. also

Icelandic

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfauːna/
• Rhymes: -auːna

Noun

fána f (genitive singular fánu, nominative plural fánur)

1. fauna

Declension

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

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /ˈfˠɑːn̪ˠə/
• (Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈfˠɑːnˠə/, /ˈfˠɑːn̪ˠə/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈfˠaːnˠə/, /ˈfˠaːn̪ˠə/

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

• fánaidh (superseded)

Noun

fána f (genitive singular fána, nominative plural fánaí)

1. slope, incline, slant
2. declivity

Declension

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

• le fána (“down, away”)

Further reading

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

Etymology 2

Contraction

fána

1. Ulster form of faoina (“about his/her/their/which”)

Alternative forms

• fá n-a (superseded)

Mutation

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.