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Eastern Maninkakan
Alternative scripts
Particle
fána
- also
Icelandic
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin fauna.
Pronunciation
Noun
fána f (genitive singular fánu, nominative plural fánur)
- fauna
Declension
Irish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Old Irish fán, from Proto-Celtic *wāgnā (“slope, depression, hollow”), hence also Welsh gwaun. Possibly related to Latin vagus (“wandering, strolling”).
Alternative forms
Noun
fána f (genitive singular fána, nominative plural fánaí)
- slope, incline, slant
- declivity
Declension
Derived terms
Further reading
Etymology 2
Contraction
fána
- Ulster form of faoina (“about his/her/their/which”)
Alternative forms
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| fána
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fhána
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bhfána
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| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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