frin

Volapük

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fringilla (The older Volapük spelling of flin with the letter "l" was later respelled frin when the letter "r" was re-introduced for many words).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [fɾin]

Noun

frin (nominative plural frins)

1. finch (bird family Fringillidae)
2. chaffinch, Fringilla coelebs (see [1])

Declension

declension of frin

	singular	plural
nominative	frin	frins
genitive	frina	frinas
dative	frine	frines
accusative	frini	frinis
vocative 1	o frin!	o frins!
predicative 2	frinu	frinus

• ¹ status as a case is disputed
• ² in later, non-classical Volapük only

Synonyms

• flin (obsolete spelling l > r)

Hypernyms

• böd
• kanitaböd
• nim

Hyponyms

• frinil
• frinül
• hifrin
• janafrin
• jifrin
• kerafrin
• tilafrin

Derived terms

• frinifan
• frinifanan
• frinifanön