inneen

Manx

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish ingen,[1] 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”)).

Pronunciation

Noun

inneen f (genitive singular inneen, plural inneenyn)

  1. daughter
    Eshyn ta geddyn drogh chleuin t'eh coayl inneen. ― He who gets a bad son-in-law loses a daughter.
    Hymnee eh e argid er e 'nneen. ― He left his money to his daughter.
    Ta 'neen echey jeh'n eash ayd. ― He has a daughter your age.
    Ta 'nneen echey uneashagh rhyt. ― He has a daughter your age.
    Ta troor dy 'neenyn eck dy chur ayns poosey. ― She has three daughters to marry off.
    T'eh son cur Moirrey er e 'neen. ― He is going to call his daughter Mary.

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 ingen”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Christopher Lewin (2020) Aspects of the historical phonology of Manx, Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh, →DOI, page 376
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