faon
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French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Middle French faon, from Old French faon, feün, from Vulgar Latin *fētōnem, from Latin fētus (“offspring, progreny”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(y)-. Compare Occitan fedon.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /fɑ̃/
Audio: (file) Audio (Switzerland): (file) - Homophones: fend, fends
Nomen
[edit]faon m (plural faons)
- fawn (young deer)
Derived terms
[edit]See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “faon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Middle Irish fáen.
Adjective
[edit]faon (genitive singular masculine faoin, genitive singular feminine faoine, plural faona, comparative faoine)
Declension
[edit]Declension of faon
Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
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Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
Nominative | faon | fhaon | faona; fhaona² | |
Vocative | fhaoin | faona | ||
Genitive | faoine | faona | faon | |
Dative | faon; fhaon¹ |
fhaon; fhaoin (archaic) |
faona; fhaona² | |
Comparative | níos faoine | |||
Superlative | is faoine |
¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Mutation
[edit]Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
faon | fhaon | bhfaon |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fáen”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Middle English
[edit]Nomen
[edit]faon
- Alternative form of foun
Old French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Nomen
[edit]faon oblique singular, m (oblique plural faons, nominative singular faons, nominative plural faon)
- Alternative form of feon
Derived terms
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