fonn

From Old Norse fǫnn; cognate with Icelandic fönn, Danish fon.

• IPA^(key): /fɔnː/

  Rhymes: -ɔnː

fonn f (genitive singular fannar, plural fannir)

1. snowdrift
2. bow wash, bow wave

• kavafonn, skalvur, snjófonn (poetic)
• bógfonn

• (Cork, Galway) IPA^(key): /fˠuːn̪ˠ/^[1]
• (Kerry) IPA^(key): /fˠɑun̪ˠ/^[2]
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /fˠʌn̪ˠ/^[3]

From Middle Irish fonn (“desire, fondness”).^[4]

fonn m (genitive singular foinn)

1. desire, urge
2. mood (with chun or the genitive of what the person is in the mood for)

   Tá fonn orm chun damhsa.

   I feel like dancing; I’m in the mood for dancing.

   Tá fonn damhsa orm.

   I feel like dancing; I’m in the mood for dancing.

• d’fhonn
• d’fhonn is go
• fonnmhar (“desirous, wishful, eager, willing”)

From Middle Irish fonn (“melody, song”).^[5]

fonn m (genitive singular foinn, nominative plural foinn)

1. (music) air (song)

• fonnadóir
• fonnmhar (“tuneful, melodious”)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “fonn”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “fonn”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 328
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “fonn”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “fonn”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024

• IPA^(key): /ɸon͈/

fonn m

1. desire, fondness, pleasure (in something)

• Irish: fonn

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 fonn (‘desire, fondness’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Perhaps an extension of etymology 1.

fonn m

1. melody, song

• Irish: fonn
• Scottish Gaelic: fonn

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “3 fonn (‘melody, song’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

From Old Norse fǫnn.

• IPA^(key): /fɔnː/

fonn f (plural fonna)

1. a snowdrift
2. an avalanche
3. a glacier

• snøfonn

• fenna

• “fonn” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Possibly a late or variant form of bonn (“sole, foot”).

• IPA^(key):

fonn m or n

1. sole (of the foot):
2. base, bottom, foundation
3. soil, ground, (by extension) piece of land, territory

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 fonn (‘sole; bottom’)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

From Middle Irish fonn (“melody, song”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /fɔun̪ˠ/

fonn m (genitive singular fuinn, plural fuinn)

1. tune, melody

• port, mànran

fonn

1. plural of fōn (“flag”)