finnae

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *wendyos, from *wendom, from Proto-Indo-European *wendʰ- (“hair”).

Noun

finnae m (genitive finnai, nominative plural finnai)

(a single) hair (of a human or animal)

Inflection

Masculine io-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	finnae	finnae^L	finnai^L
vocative	finnai	finnae^L	finnu
accusative	finnae^N	finnae^L	finnu^H
genitive	finnai^L	finnae^L	finnae^N
dative	finnu^L	finnaib	finnaib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

^H = triggers aspiration
^L = triggers lenition
^N = triggers nasalization

Related terms

find
finnfad

Descendants

Middle Irish: finna
- Irish: fionna
- Scottish Gaelic: fionna

Mutation

Mutation of *finnae*
radical	lenition	nasalization
finnae	ḟinnae	finnae pronounced with /β̃ʲ-/

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

Further reading

Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “finna”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language