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Old Irish
Etymology
From Latin innocuus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
ennac
- innocent
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 91b7
is dó du·gníinn-se anísin, combin cosmail fri encu- It is for that that I used to do that, so that I might be like innocent ones
Declension
| o/ā-stem
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| Singular
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Masculine
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Feminine
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Neuter
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| Nominative
|
ennac
|
ennac
|
ennac
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| Vocative
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ennaic*
ennac**
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| Accusative
|
ennac
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ennaic
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| Genitive
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ennaic
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ennaice
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ennaic
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| Dative
|
ennuc
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ennaic
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ennuc
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| Plural
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Masculine
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Feminine/neuter
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| Nominative
|
ennaic
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enca
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| Vocative
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encu
enca†
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| Accusative
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encu
enca†
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| Genitive
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ennac
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| Dative
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encaib
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| Notes
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*modifying a noun whose vocative is different from its nominative
**modifying a noun whose vocative is identical to its nominative
† not when substantivized
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Derived terms
Descendants
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation
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| Radical |
Lenition |
Nasalization
|
ennac
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)
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unchanged
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n-ennac
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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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