féinní

Irish

Alternative forms

• féinnidh (superseded)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Irish fénnid.

Noun

féinní m (genitive singular féinní, nominative plural féinnithe)

1. (literary) member of legendary Fianna
2. (roving) warrior; soldier
3. champion

Declension

Declension of féinní

Fourth declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative féinní féinnithe Vocative a fhéinní a fhéinnithe Genitive féinní féinnithe Dative féinní féinnithe

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an féinní na féinnithe Genitive an fhéinní na bhféinnithe Dative leis an bhféinní don fhéinní leis na féinnithe

Derived terms

• féinníocht

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
féinní	fhéinní	bhféinní
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “féinní”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 309
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “féinní”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fénnid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language