ingenas
English
Noun
ingenas
- plural of ingena
Anagrams
Middle Irish
Etymology
From ingen (“daughter”) + -as.
Noun
ingenas m
- maidenhood, virginity
- a defect in cows which prevents them being mated
Descendants
- Irish: iníonas
Mutation
| radical | lenition | nasalization |
|---|---|---|
| ingenas (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments) |
unchanged | n-ingenas |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Middle Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ingenas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language