faighin

Irish

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

faighin f (genitive singular faighne, nominative plural faighneacha)

Declension of faighin (second declension)

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

Mutated forms of *faighin*
radical	lenition	eclipsis
faighin	fhaighin	bhfaighin

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.