tine Fhéile Eoin

Irish

Noun

tine Fhéile Eoin f (genitive singular tine Féile Eoin)

1. St John’s fire, a bonfire held on the evening of 23 June (the eve of the Nativity of John the Baptist)

See also

• Lá Fhéile Eoin (“St John’s Day”)
• Oíche Fhéile Eoin (“St John’s Eve”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
tine Fhéile Eoin	thine Fhéile Eoin	dtine Fhéile Eoin
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “teine”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “tine”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN