iarfinen.
/ˈɪəfɪni/, U.S. /ˈɪrˌfɪni/, Irish English /ˈiːrfɪni/ Irish History.
One of the four branches of the Irish clan structure comprising the men in the third grade of relationship to the chief. Cf. geilfine n., indfine n.
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1875 H. J. S. Maine Lect. Early Hist. Inst. 209 The eldest member of the Iarfine moved into the Indfine.
1879 A. G. Richey Anc. Laws Ireland IV. Introd. p. xlix In all the Brehon Law Tracts there are references to an existing organization, generally known as the Geilfine system, and to the four classes designated as the Geilfine, Deirbfhine, Iarfine, and Indfine.
1921 E. MacNeill Celtic Ireland x. 162 If the Iarfine and the Indfhine existed as communal family groups,..the explanation is to be found in the reluctance to disturb the family holdings when the Derbfhine had run its course.
1967 F. J. Byrne in Moody & Martin Course Irish Hist. iii. 49 The brehon lawyers drew up a very elaborate scheme of the different degrees of relationship. The geilfhine..was the normal family group... And the iarfine and indfhine the second and third cousins respectively.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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