Irish
Etymology
From iníon (“daughter; girl, maiden; (young) woman”) + -acht.
Noun
iníonacht f (genitive singular iníonachta)
- daughterhood, girlhood, maidenhood
- Synonym: iníonas
Declension
Declension of iníonacht (third declension, no plural)
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Mutation
Mutated forms of iníonacht
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eclipsis |
with h-prothesis |
with t-prothesis
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| iníonacht
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n-iníonacht
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hiníonacht
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not applicable
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Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “iníonacht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ingenacht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language