fiántas

Irish

Alternative forms
  • fiántacht
  • fiadhantacht, fiadhantas, fiadhántas, fiadhántus, fiantas (obsolete)[1]

Etymology

From fiánta +‎ -as.

Pronunciation

Noun

fiántas m (genitive singular fiántais, nominative plural)

  1. wildness, savagery, fierceness
  2. wilderness (uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state; a tract of such land)

Declension
Declension of fiántas

First declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun)

Case Singular
Nominative Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Vocative a fhiántais
Genitive fiántais
Dative Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular
Nominative an Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Genitive an fhiántais
Dative leis an bhfiántas

don fhiántas

Mutation

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

References
  1. “fiántas”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 109

Further reading
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