fiann

Irish

From Old Irish fían, from Proto-Celtic *weinā (“band of warriors”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyh₁- (“to chase, pursue”). Cognate with Latin vēnor (“I hunt”), Old English wynn (“joy, desire”) and Old Norse vinr (“friend”).

fiann f (genitive singular féinne, nominative plural fianna)

Declension of fiann

Bare forms

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	fiann	fianna
Vocative	a fhiann	a fhianna
Genitive	féinne	fiann
Dative	fiann féinn (archaic, dialectal)	fianna

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an fhiann	na fianna
Genitive	na féinne	na bhfiann
Dative	leis an bhfiann leis an bhféinn (archaic, dialectal) don fhiann don fhéinn (archaic, dialectal)	leis na fianna

fiann m

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
fiann	fhiann	bhfiann
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fían”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “fiann”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
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