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fionnrua

Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Middle Irish findruad.[2] By surface analysis, fionn (“blond”) +‎ rua (“redheaded”).

Adjective

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fionnrua (not comparable)

  1. light auburn or sandy (of hair), strawberry blond

Mutation

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Mutated forms of fionnrua
radical lenition eclipsis
fionnrua fhionnrua bhfionnrua

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

References

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  1. ^ “fionnrua”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 finn”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading

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