fann

From Old Irish fann (“weak, helpless”), from Proto-Celtic *wasnos. Cognate with Breton gwan, Old Cornish guan, and Welsh gwan.

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /fˠaun̪ˠ/
• (Aran, Cois Fharraige) IPA^(key): /fˠɑːn̪ˠ/
• (Connemara, Mayo, Ulster) IPA^(key): /fˠan̪ˠ/

fann (genitive singular masculine fainn, genitive singular feminine fainne, plural fanna, comparative fainne)

1. faint, weak, feeble

   Synonym: tláith

• fainne (“weakness”)
• fannaigh (“to weaken”)
• fannlag (“debilitated”)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “fann”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla [Irish–English Dictionary], Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “fann”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

• IPA^(key): /fan/, [fɑn]

fann

1. second-person singular imperative of fannen

From Old Irish fennaid (“to flay, skin”).

fann (verbal noun fanney, past participle fant)

1. to skin, scalp, flay, slash
2. to soak
3. to fleece
4. to dress down
5. to bite (of wind)

• fanneyder

fann

1. (non-standard since 2005) past tense of finne

fann

1. past tense of finne

• fan, fon

From Proto-West Germanic *βannu, *wannu (“winnowing fan”).

• IPA^(key): /fɑnn/, [fɑn]
• Rhymes: -ɑnn

fann f

1. fan (implement for winnowing grain)
   • Wonders of the East

     Hī habbað miċle hēafda ⁊ ēaran swā fann. Ōþer ēare hī him on niht underbredað, ⁊ mid ōðran hȳ wrēoð him. Beoð þa ēaran swīðe lēohte ⁊ him beoð ān līchoman swā hwīte swā meolc. ⁊ ġif hī hwylcne mann on þām landum ġesēoð oþðe onġytað, þonne nimað hī heora ēaran on hand ⁊ feorriað hī ⁊ flēoð, swā hrǣdlīċe swā is wēn þætte hī flēogen.

     They have great heads and ears like fans. They spread one ear under themselves at night, and wrap themselves in the other. The ears are very light and their bodies are as white as milk. And if they see or perceive anyone in those lands, they take their ears in their hands and go far and flee, so quickly one might think that they flew.

Strong ō-stem:

• fannian (“to winnow corn”)

• Middle English: fan
  • English: fan

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “fann”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

fann

1. first/third-person singular past active indicative of finna

fann

1. past indicative of finna