fuinneamh

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish fuinnem (“momentum, vigour, force”), verbal noun of fo·snī-.

Noun

fuinneamh m (genitive singular fuinnimh)

1. (physics, etc.) energy; force, vigour; pep, spirit
   1. twist, twirl

Declension

Declension of fuinneamh

First declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative fuinneamh Vocative a fhuinnimh Genitive fuinnimh Dative fuinneamh

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Nominative an fuinneamh Genitive an fhuinnimh Dative leis an bhfuinneamh don fhuinneamh

Derived terms

• bíoga fuinnimh (“pulses of energy”)
• fuinneamh adamhach (“atomic energy”)
• fuinneamh cainte (“vigour of speech”)
• fuinneamh folaigh (“latent energy”)
• fuinneamh gluaiseachta (“motive energy”)
• fuinneamh gníomhachtaíochta (“activation energy”)
• fuinneamh na hóige (“the fire of youth”)
• fuinneamh nasctha (“binding energy”)
• fuinneamh poitéinsiúil (“potential energy”)
• fuinneamh statach (“static energy”)
• fuinneamh stíle (“vigour of style”)
• fuinneamhachas (“energetics”)
• fuinniúil (“energetic; forceful, vigorous”, adjective)
• fuinnmhigh (“energize”, transitive verb)
• maisfhuinneamh (“mass energy”)

 

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
fuinneamh	fhuinneamh	bhfuinneamh
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “fuinneamh”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fuinnem”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language