The story
- Irish · derived fromfianna
- Irish · borrowed fromFianna Fáil
- English todayFianna Fáil
Unadapted borrowing from Irish Fianna Fáil. From Irish fianna, plural of fiann (“warrior”), and Fáil, genitive of Fál (a legendary name of Ireland); cf. Old Irish fál. The original meaning is thus “warriors of Fál”, but the phrase is traditionally translated as “soldiers of destiny”.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.