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Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Irish fern + -óg (compare Scottish Gaelic feàrna, Manx farney), from Proto-Celtic *wernā (compare Welsh gwern).
Noun
fearnóg f (genitive singular fearnóige, nominative plural fearnóga)
- alder tree
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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| fearnóg
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fhearnóg
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bhfearnóg
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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
- “fearnóg”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “fernóc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “fearnóg”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 305
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “fearnóg”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN