faighin

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish faigen (“sheath, scabbard”), from Latin vāgīna. Cognate with Manx fine and Scottish Gaelic faighean.

Noun

faighin f (genitive singular faighne, nominative plural faighneacha)

  1. vagina

Declension
Declension of faighin

Second declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative faighin faighneacha
Vocative a fhaighin a fhaighneacha
Genitive faighne faighneacha
Dative faighin faighneacha

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an fhaighin na faighneacha
Genitive na faighne na bhfaighneacha
Dative leis an bhfaighin

don fhaighin

 leis na faighneacha

Synonyms

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
faighin fhaighin bhfaighin
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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