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Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Irish faigen (“sheath, scabbard”), from Latin vāgīna. Cognate with Manx fine and Scottish Gaelic faighean.
Noun
faighin f (genitive singular faighne, nominative plural faighneacha)
- sheath
- scabbard
- case, shell
- vagina
- Synonyms: (colloquial) coinín, pit
Declension
Derived terms
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| faighin
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fhaighin
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bhfaighin
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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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