finnfad

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• findfad
• findfod

Etymology

Akin to finna (“a hair”).

Noun

finnfad m (genitive finnfaid)

1. hair (typically of the body), fur
   • c. 900, Sanas Cormaic, from the Yellow Book of Lecan, Corm. Y 242

     findfod

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

• finnfadach (“hairy, shaggy”)

Descendants

• Irish: fionnadh
• Scottish Gaelic: fionnadh

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
finnfad	ḟinnfad	finnfad pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “finnfad”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language