fáinleog
Irish
fáinleog
Alternative forms
- áinleog
- fáinle
Etymology
From early modern Irish áinleóg, from Middle Irish áilleóc, fainleóc (compare Scottish Gaelic ainleag), a diminutive of Old Irish ainnel, fannall, from Proto-Celtic *wesnālā (“swallow”) (compare Welsh gwennol (“swallow, martin”), Cornish guennol, Breton gwenneli), from Proto-Celtic *wesr-/wesn- (“spring”), from Proto-Indo-European *wósr̥ (“spring”).
Noun
fáinleog f (genitive singular fáinleoige, nominative plural fáinleoga)
- swallow (bird) Hirundo rustica
Declension
Declension of fáinleog
Second declension
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Mutation
| Irish mutation | ||
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| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| fáinleog | fháinleog | bhfáinleog |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “fáinleog”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “áilleóc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “fainleóc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “ainnel”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “fannall”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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