faílenn
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Middle Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish foílenn, from Proto-Celtic *wailannā (“seagull”). Cognate with Cornish guilan, Welsh gwylan, Breton gouelan.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]faílenn m or f
Descendants
[edit]Mutation
[edit]Middle Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
faílenn | ḟaílenn | faílenn pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/ |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “faílenn, foílenn”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Categories:
- Middle Irish terms inherited from Old Irish
- Middle Irish terms derived from Old Irish
- Middle Irish terms inherited from Proto-Celtic
- Middle Irish terms derived from Proto-Celtic
- Middle Irish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Middle Irish lemmas
- Middle Irish nouns
- Middle Irish masculine nouns
- Middle Irish feminine nouns
- Middle Irish nouns with multiple genders
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