innilt

Irish

Alternative forms

  • ingeilt, ingheilt, inghillt, inghilt, innillt (obsolete)[1]
  • ingilt (Ulster)

Etymology

From Middle Irish ingelt, from in- + Old Irish gelt (“grazing”), from Proto-Celtic *gʷeltā (compare Welsh gwellt (“grass”)).[2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɪnʲəlʲtʲ/, /ˈɪn̠ʲəl̠ʲtʲ/[3]
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈinʲɪɟɪl̠ʲtʲ/[4] (corresponding to the form ingilt)

Noun

innilt f (genitive singular innilte)

  1. grazing

Declension

Declension of innilt (second declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative innilt
vocative a innilt
genitive innilte
dative innilt
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an innilt
genitive na hinnilte
dative leis an innilt
don innilt

Mutation

Mutated forms of innilt
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
innilt n-innilt hinnilt 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. ^ “innilt”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ingelt”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ “innilt”, in Irish Pronunciation Database, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025
  4. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 43

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