fíne

See also: fine and finé

Old Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vīnea.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɸʲiːnʲe]

Noun

fíne f (genitive fíne, nominative plural fíni)

1. vine
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 102^a15

     Itius anúas ⁊ dus·claid anís; air ní foircnea in fíni hithe neich di anúas, amal du·ngní int aís sechmaill as·mbeir-som .i. air is cuit adaill ad·n-ellat-sidi in fíni du thabairt neich doib dia thorud.

     They eat it from above and he roots it up from below; for it does not exterminate the vine to eat of anything of it from above, as do the passers-by whom he speaks of, i.e. for it is only a passing visit that they make [lit: ‘that they visit’] to the vine to take something for themselves of its fruit.

Inflection

Feminine iā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	fíneL	fíniL	fíni
Vocative	fíneL	fíniL	fíni
Accusative	fíniN	fíniL	fíni
Genitive	fíne	fíneL	fíneN
Dative	fíniL	fínib	fínib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
fíne	ḟíne	fíne pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fíne”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language