foirnéis
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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
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “2 foirnéis”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language