soirnéis
Irish
editEtymology
editBlend of sorn + foirnéis. Apparently attested only in Geoffrey Keating's work Eochair-Sgiath an Aifrinn (literally, ‘Buckler of the Mass’, i.e. an explanatory defense of the Roman Catholic Mass, written ca. 1615), where the phrase ’san tsoirnéis (“in the furnace”) appears twice on p. 114 of the edition edited by Patrick O’Brien and published in 1898.
Noun
editsoirnéis f
Inflection
editNo inflected forms are attested, but assuming it was declined exactly like foirnéis, the following forms would be expected:
Declension of soirnéis
Bare forms
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Forms with the definite article
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Mutation
editIrish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
soirnéis | shoirnéis after an, tsoirnéis |
not applicable |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
edit- “soirnéis”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “soirnéis”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language