See fáinne on Wiktionary
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"circle"
],
"links": [
[
"circle",
"circle"
]
],
"tags": [
"masculine"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"ringlet, curl"
],
"links": [
[
"ringlet",
"ringlet"
],
[
"curl",
"curl"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "bachall"
},
{
"word": "búcla"
},
{
"word": "drol"
},
{
"word": "caschiabh"
},
{
"word": "fáinneog"
},
{
"word": "iodh"
},
{
"word": "lúibín"
}
],
"tags": [
"masculine"
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"halo"
],
"links": [
[
"halo",
"halo"
]
],
"tags": [
"masculine"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈfˠɑːɲə/",
"tags": [
"Waterford"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈfˠɑːnʲə/",
"tags": [
"Cork",
"Kerry"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈfˠɑːn̠ʲə/",
"tags": [
"Connacht"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈfˠaːn̠ʲə/",
"tags": [
"Ulster"
]
}
],
"word": "fáinne"
}
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"called_from": "inflection/865",
"msg": "inflection table: IF WITHOUT ELSE EVALS False: fáinne/Irish 'radical' base_tags=set()",
"path": [
"fáinne"
],
"section": "Irish",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "fáinne",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "inflection/735",
"msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'lenition'",
"path": [
"fáinne"
],
"section": "Irish",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "fáinne",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "inflection/735",
"msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: 'eclipsis'",
"path": [
"fáinne"
],
"section": "Irish",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "fáinne",
"trace": ""
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-05-27 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-05-20 using wiktextract (a4e883e and f1c2b61). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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