foirnéis
See also: fòirneis
Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old French fornais (compare Manx furnish, Scottish Gaelic fòirneis), from Latin fornāx.
Noun
[edit]foirnéis f (genitive singular foirnéise, nominative plural foirnéisí)
Declension
[edit]Declension of foirnéis
Bare forms
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Forms with the definite article
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Derived terms
[edit]- craos foirnéise (“throat of furnace”)
- foirnéis athghinte (“regenerating furnace”)
- foirnéis bhruithnithe (“smelting furnace”)
- foirnéis fhrithspréite (“reverberatory (furnace)”)
- foirnéis shuaite (“puddling-furnace”)
- foirnéis soinneáin (“blast-furnace”)
- foirnéis theallachoscailte (“open-hearth furnace”)
- gráta foirnéise (“furnace-grate”)
- mufalfhoirnéis (“muffle-furnace”)
Mutation
[edit]Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
foirnéis | fhoirnéis | bhfoirnéis |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “foirnéis”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 foirnéis”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language