soirnéis

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Irish

Etymology

Blend of sorn +‎ foirnéis. Apparently attested only in Geoffrey Keating's work Eochair-Sgiath an Aifrinn (literally, ‘Buckler of the Mass’, i.e. an explanatory defense of the Roman Catholic Mass, written ca. 1615), where the phrase ’san tsoirnéis (“in the furnace”) appears twice on p. 114 of the edition edited by Patrick O’Brien and published in 1898.

Noun

soirnéis f

  1. (obsolete) furnace

Inflection

No inflected forms are attested, but assuming it was declined exactly like foirnéis, the following forms would be expected:

Declension of soirnéis (second declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative soirnéis soirnéisí
vocative a shoirnéis a shoirnéisí
genitive soirnéise soirnéisí
dative soirnéis soirnéisí
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an tsoirnéis na soirnéisí
genitive na soirnéise na soirnéisí
dative leis an tsoirnéis
don tsoirnéis 		leis na soirnéisí

Mutation

Mutated forms of soirnéis
radical lenition eclipsis
soirnéis shoirnéis
after an, tsoirnéis 		not applicable

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

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