Irish
Etymology
From Middle Irish ingenas, from Old Irish ingen (“daughter”). By surface analysis, iníon (“daughter”) + -as.
Noun
iníonas m (genitive singular iníonais)
- synonym of iníonacht (“daughterhood, girlhood, maidenhood”)
Declension
Declension of iníonas (third declension, no plural)
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Mutation
Mutated forms of iníonas
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eclipsis |
with h-prothesis |
with t-prothesis
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| iníonas
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n-iníonas
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hiníonas
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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), “ingenas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language