Fínín

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Irish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Irish Fíngin (literally “wine-born”), from fín (“wine”) + gein (“birth”).

Proper noun

Fínín m (genitive Fhínín)

  1. a male given name from Old Irish
Usage notes

Historically anglicized as Florence, to which it is etymologically unrelated.

Alternative forms

Further reading

  • “Fínín”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  • Ó Corráin, Donnchadh, Maguire, Fidelma (1981) Gaelic Personal Names, Dublin: The Academy Press, →ISBN, page 100

Etymology 2

From fianna (as in Fianna Éireann) + -ín. The monophthongization of ia to í is probably due to the influence of English Fenian, of the given name, or both.

Noun

Fínín m (genitive singular Fínín, nominative plural Fíníní)

  1. (historical) Fenian
Declension
Declension of Fínín (fourth declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative Fínín Fíníní
vocative a Fhínín a Fhíníní
genitive Fínín Fíníní
dative Fínín Fíníní
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an Fhínín na Fíníní
genitive na Fínín na bhFíníní
dative leis an bhFínín
don Fhínín 		leis na Fíníní
Derived terms

Further reading

Mutation

Mutated forms of Fínín
radical lenition eclipsis
Fínín Fhínín bhFínín

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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