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Irish
Etymology
From Old French fornais (compare Manx furnish, Scottish Gaelic fòirneis), from Latin fornāx.
Noun
foirnéis f (genitive singular foirnéise, nominative plural foirnéisí)
- furnace
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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| foirnéis
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fhoirnéis
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bhfoirnéis
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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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References
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “foirnéis”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “2 foirnéis”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language