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Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish ainecnae (“foolishness, lack of enlightenment”), from ecnae (“wisdom, knowledge, enlightenment”). By surface analysis, ain- (negative prefix) + eagna (“wisdom”).
Noun
aineagna f (genitive singular aineagna)
- unwisdom
Declension
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical |
Eclipsis |
with h-prothesis |
with t-prothesis
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| aineagna
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n-aineagna
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haineagna
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not applicable
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| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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References
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “aineagna”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 ainecnae”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language