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Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish aineóil (“unknown, strange, unfamiliar”), from the genitive form of aineól (“ignorance”), prefixed form of eól (“knowledge; acquaintance; experience (in), skill”).
Adjective
aineoil
- (attributive) unknown, strange, untravelled, untrodden
Mutation
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “aineoil”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “aineóil”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Scottish Gaelic
Noun
aineoil
- inflection of aineol:
- genitive singular
- plural