finscéal

Irish

From Middle Irish findscél, from Old Irish finn (“fair”) + scél (“story”).

finscéal m (genitive singular finscéil, nominative plural finscéalta)

legend (story of unknown origin describing plausible but extraordinary past events)
fable (fictitious narration to enforce some useful truth or precept)
fairy tale (folktale)
fanciful story, romantic tale

Declension of finscéal (first declension)

forms with the definite article
case	singular	plural
nominative	an finscéal	na finscéalta
genitive	an fhinscéil	na bhfinscéalta
dative	leis an bhfinscéal don fhinscéal	leis na finscéalta

Mutated forms of *finscéal*
radical	lenition	eclipsis
finscéal	fhinscéal	bhfinscéal

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

Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 finn”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “finnscéal”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 315
Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “finscéal”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN