fáinleog
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fáinleog
Irish
Alternative forms
- áilleog, áinleog, áinle, fáinle, fáinleoigín
- áinleóg, áinnle, fáinleóg, fáinnle, fáinnleog, fáinnleóg (superseded)[1]
Etymology
From early modern Irish áinleóg, from Middle Irish áilleóc,[2] fainleóc[3] (compare Scottish Gaelic ainleag), a diminutive of Old Irish ainnel,[4] fannall,[5] from Proto-Celtic *wesnālā (“swallow”) (compare Welsh gwennol (“swallow, martin”), Cornish guennol, Breton gwenneli), from Proto-Celtic *wesrū (“spring”), from Proto-Indo-European *wósr̥ (“spring”). By surface analysis, fáinle + -óg.
Pronunciation
- (Aran) IPA(key): /ˈfˠɯːnloːɡ/[6] (as if spelled faoinleog)
- (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈaːn̠ʲl̠ʲɔɡ/[7] (corresponding to the form áinleog)
Noun
fáinleog f (genitive singular fáinleoige, nominative plural fáinleoga)
- swallow (bird) Hirundo rustica
Declension
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Related terms
- fáinlearrach (“swallowtailed”)
Mutation
| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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
- ^ “fáinleog”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “áilleóc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fainleóc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ainnel”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fannall”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 119
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 254, page 91
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “fáinleog”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN