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Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle Irish foithin.
Pronunciation
Noun
fothain f (genitive singular fothana)
- shelter
- Synonym: foscadh
- faoi fhothain ― sheltered, screened
- covert (hiding place)
- lee
- taobh na fothana ― the leeward side
- secret-keeping ability
Níl aon fhothain ionam.- I can’t keep a secret.
- (literally, “There is no secret-keeping ability in me.”)
Declension
Mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| fothain
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fhothain
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bhfothain
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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
Further reading
- “fothain”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “foithin”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “foṫain”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 332
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “fuiṫin”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 340
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “fothain”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN