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Irish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Irish fénnidecht. By surface analysis, féinní + -íocht.
Noun
féinníocht f (genitive singular féinníochta)
- Synonym of fiannaíocht (“service with ancient warrior band; service in Fianna; stories, lays, of the Fianna; ancient lore; romantic story-telling”)
Declension
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| féinníocht
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fhéinníocht
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bhféinníocht
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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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Further reading
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “féinniḋeaċt”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 309
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “féinniḋeaċt”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “féinníocht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fénnidecht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language