fána

See also: fana, Fana, fanã, and fäna

Eastern Maninkakan

Alternative scripts
  • ߝߣߊ߫ (nko)

Particle

fána

  1. also

Icelandic

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fauna.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈfauːna/
  • Rhymes: -auːna

Noun

fána f (genitive singular fánu, nominative plural fánur)

  1. fauna

Declension
declension of fána
f-w1 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
  • (Munster) IPA(key): /ˈfˠɑːn̪ˠə/
  • (Connacht) IPA(key): /ˈfˠɑːnˠə/, /ˈfˠɑːn̪ˠə/[1]
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈfˠaːnˠə/, /ˈfˠaːn̪ˠə/

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
  • le fána (“down, away”)

Further reading

Contraction

fána

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

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
fána fhána bhfána
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  1. Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (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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