fingal

See also: Fingal

Old Irish

Etymology

From fine (“family, kindred”) +‎ gal (“warlike ardour, fury”)

Noun

fingal f

kin slaying, parricide, fratricide

Inflection

Feminine ā-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	fingal^L	fingail^L	fingala^H
vocative	fingal^L	fingail^L	fingala^H
accusative	fingail^N	fingail^L	fingala^H
genitive	fingaile^H	fingal^L	fingal^N
dative	fingail^L	fingalaib	fingalaib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

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

Synonyms

galfine

Derived terms

fingalach

Mutation

Mutation of *fingal*
radical	lenition	nasalization
fingal	ḟingal	fingal 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), “fingal”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language