Relatit: fein, fèin, feîn, féin-, and fèin-

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Etymology 1 eedit

Frae Old Irish fein, from Proto-Indo-European *swey-no-, suffixed form o ruit *swé, pronoon o the third person an reflexive (referrin back tae the subject o a sentence), an aa uised in forms denotin the speaker’s social group, “(we oor-)sels”.

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  • /heːnʲ/

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Féin

  1. sel
    féinmyself
    (baith emphatic an reflexive)
    sinn féinoorsels; we oorsels
  2. awn
    mo theach féinmy awn hoose
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Féin

  1. even, anerly
    má tá féineven if it is

Etymology 2 eedit

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Féin

  1. REDIRECTTemplate:Wt/sco/inflection of

Mutation eedit

Erse mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
féin fhéin bhféin
Note: Some o thir forms mey be hypothetical. Nae ivery
possible mutatit form o ivery wird actually occurs.