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Irish
Etymology
From Middle Irish findruad.[2] By surface analysis, fionn (“blond”) + rua (“redheaded”).
Adjective
fionnrua (not comparable)
- light auburn or sandy (of hair), strawberry blond
Mutation
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
- ^ “fionnrua”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 finn”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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