faisnéis
Irish
Etymology
From Middle Irish aisnéis, from Old Irish aisndís, verbal noun of as·indet (“declares, tells, relates”).
Noun
faisnéis f (genitive singular faisnéise, nominative plural faisnéisí)
- verbal noun of faisnéis
- information; intelligence, report
- Synonym: eolas
- (grammar) predicate
Declension
Declension of faisnéis
Bare forms
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Forms with the definite article
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Alternative forms
Derived terms
- beathaisnéis (“biography”)
- bileog faisnéise (“handout, leaflet”)
- bréagaisnéis (“disinformation”)
- cáinaisnéis (“budget”)
- comhaisnéis (“apposition; shared information”)
- faisnéiseach (“informative; predicative”, adjective)
- faisnéiseoir m (“informant”)
- idiraisnéis (“parenthesis, aside”)
- maolaisnéis (“understatement”)
- mífhaisnéis (“misinformation; misrepresentation”)
- nóta faisnéise (“advice note”)
- réamhaisnéis (“prediction; forecast, forecasting”)
- teoiric faisnéise (“information theory”)
Verb
faisnéis (present analytic faisnéiseann, future analytic faisnéisfidh, verbal noun faisnéis, past participle faisnéiste) (transitive, intransitive)
Conjugation
conjugation of faisnéis (first conjugation – B)
*indirect relative
† archaic or dialect form
‡ dependent form
‡‡ dependent form used with particles that trigger eclipsis
Alternative forms
Derived terms
- réamhaisnéis (“forecast”, verb)
Mutation
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
faisnéis | fhaisnéis | bhfaisnéis |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “faisnéis”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “aisnéis”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “faisnéis”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “faisnéis”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
Categories:
- Irish terms inherited from Middle Irish
- Irish terms derived from Middle Irish
- Irish terms inherited from Old Irish
- Irish terms derived from Old Irish
- Irish lemmas
- Irish nouns
- Irish feminine nouns
- Irish verbal nouns
- ga:Grammar
- Irish second-declension nouns
- Irish verbs
- Irish transitive verbs
- Irish intransitive verbs
- Irish first-conjugation verbs of class B