frin

Volapük

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fringilla (The older Volapük spelling of flin with the letter "l" was later respelled frin when the letter "r" was re-introduced for many words).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [fɾin]

Noun

frin (plural frins)

  1. finch (bird family Fringillidae)
  2. chaffinch, Fringilla coelebs (see )

Declension
declension of frin
singular plural
nominative frin frins
genitive frina frinas
dative frine frines
accusative frini frinis
vocative 1 o frin! o frins!
predicative 2 frinu frinus
  • 1 status as a case is disputed
  • 2 in some later, non-classical Volapük only

Synonyms
  • flin (obsolete spelling l > r)

Hypernyms

Hyponyms
  • frinil
  • frinül
  • hifrin
  • janafrin
  • jifrin
  • kerafrin
  • tilafrin

Derived terms
  • frinifan
  • frinifanan
  • frinifanön
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