fánaí

Irish

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Compare fán.

Noun

fánaí m (genitive singular fánaí, nominative plural fánaithe)

  1. wanderer, vagrant
  2. casual worker; potterer
  3. odd, chance, casual, person
Declension
Declension of fánaí

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative fánaí fánaithe
Vocative a fhánaí a fhánaithe
Genitive fánaí fánaithe
Dative fánaí fánaithe

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an fánaí na fánaithe
Genitive an fhánaí na bhfánaithe
Dative leis an bhfánaí

don fhánaí

 leis na fánaithe
Synonyms
Derived terms
  • fánaíocht f (“(act of) wandering, vagrancy; (act of) rambling, roving; hiking; casualness, haphazardness; aimlessness, purposelessness; diminishment, decline; drift”)

Noun

fánaí f (genitive singular fánaí)

  1. wandering, vagrancy
  2. casualness, haphazardness
  3. scarceness, rareness
Declension
Declension of fánaí

Fourth declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun)

Case Singular
Nominative fánaí
Vocative a fhánaí
Genitive fánaí
Dative fánaí

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular
Nominative an fhánaí
Genitive na fánaí
Dative leis an bhfánaí

don fhánaí

Derived terms
  • fear fánaí (“casual, haphazard, worker”)

Adjective

fánaí

  1. inflection of fánach:
    1. genitive singular feminine
    2. comparative degree

Noun

fánaí f pl

  1. plural of fána (“downward slope, declivity; depression, hollow; droop”)

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

Further reading
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