féinní

Irish

Alternative forms

féinnidh (superseded)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Irish fénnid.

Noun

féinní m (genitive singular féinní, nominative plural féinnithe)

(literary) member of legendary Fianna
(roving) warrior; soldier
champion

Declension

Declension of féinní

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	féinní	féinnithe
Vocative	a fhéinní	a fhéinnithe
Genitive	féinní	féinnithe
Dative	féinní	féinnithe

Forms with the definite article

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an féinní	na féinnithe
Genitive	an fhéinní	na bhféinnithe
Dative	leis an bhféinní don fhéinní	leis na féinnithe

Derived terms

féinníocht

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
féinní	fhéinní	bhféinní
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “féinní”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 309
Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “féinní”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “fénnid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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