fána

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See also: fana, Fana, fanã, and fäna

Eastern Maninkakan

Alternative scripts

Particle

fána

  1. also

Icelandic

Etymology

Learned borrowing from New Latin fauna, from Latin Fauna (“name of a rural goddess”).

Pronunciation

Noun

fána f (genitive singular fánu, nominative plural fánur)

  1. fauna

Declension

Declension of fána (feminine)
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative fána fánan fánur fánurnar
accusative fánu fánuna fánur fánurnar
dative fánu fánunni fánum fánunum
genitive fánu fánunnar fána fánanna

Irish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Irish fán, from Proto-Celtic *wāgnā (“slope, depression, hollow”), hence also Welsh gwaun. Possibly related to Latin vagus (“wandering, strolling”).[2]

Alternative forms

Noun

fána f (genitive singular fána, nominative plural fánaí)

  1. slope, incline, slant
  2. declivity
Declension
Declension of fána (fourth declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative fána fánaí
vocative a fhána a fhánaí
genitive fána fánaí
dative fána fánaí
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an fhána na fánaí
genitive na fána na bhfánaí
dative leis an bhfána
don fhána 		leis na fánaí
Derived terms

Further reading

Etymology 2

Contraction

fána

  1. Ulster form of faoina (“about his/her/their/which”)
Alternative forms

Mutation

Mutated forms of fána
radical lenition eclipsis
fána fhána bhfána

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 105
  2. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “wagno”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 401-02
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