inghean

Irish

inghean f (genitive singular inghine, nominative plural ingheanacha)

Declension of inghean (second declension)

bare forms
	singular	plural
nominative	inghean	ingheanacha
vocative	a inghean	a ingheanacha
genitive	inghine	ingheanacha
dative	inghean inghin (archaic, dialectal)	ingheanacha

forms with the definite article
	singular	plural
nominative	an inghean	na hingheanacha
genitive	na hinghine	na n-ingheanacha
dative	leis an inghean leis an inghin (archaic, dialectal) don inghean don inghin (archaic, dialectal)	leis na hingheanacha

Mutated forms of *inghean*
radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
inghean	n-inghean	hinghean	not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

From Old Irish ingen, from Primitive Irish ᚔᚅᚔᚌᚓᚅᚐ (inigena), from Proto-Celtic *enigenā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁én (“in”) + *ǵenh₁- (“produce, give birth”) (compare Latin indigena (“native”), Ancient Greek ἐγγόνη (engónē, “granddaughter”)). Ulster Irish níon and modern Scottish Gaelic nighean stem from the same Old Irish source, being metathesised descendants of Old Irish ingen.

inghean f (genitive singular ìghne, plural ingheanan or ìghnean)

Edward Dwelly (1911) “inghean”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 ingen”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language