inneach

Irish

Alternative forms

  • innioch (obsolete)[1]

Etymology

From Middle Irish innech, indech,[2] from Proto-Celtic *ande- (“inside”) + the root of *wegyeti (“to weave”).

Pronunciation

Noun

inneach m (genitive singular innigh)

  1. (textiles) woof, weft
  2. (obsolete) inlay (material placed within another material as decoration)

Declension

Declension of inneach (first declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative inneach
vocative a innigh
genitive innigh
dative inneach
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an t-inneach
genitive an innigh
dative leis an inneach
don inneach

Derived terms

  • dlúth agus inneach (“warp and woof (both literal and figurative), fabric (figurative framework)”)
  • inneach do dhá lámh (“one’s handiwork, one’s industry”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of inneach
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
inneach n-inneach hinneach not applicable

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

References

  1. ^ “inneach”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “indech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 142
  4. ^ de Búrca, Seán (1958) The Irish of Tourmakeady, Co. Mayo: A Phonemic Study, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, section 192, page 37
  5. ^ Stockman, Gerard (1974) The Irish of Achill, Co. Mayo (Studies in Irish Language and Literature, Department of Celtic, Q.U.B.; vol. 2), Institute of Irish Studies, The Queen’s University of Belfast
  6. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 251, page 90

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