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Old Irish
Etymology
A derivative of ennac (“innocent”).
Noun
enncae f (genitive enncae, no plural)
- innocence
- 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. 24a19
Ro·fitir didiu ⁊ etir·gein ní dú ulc, intí lasmbí ind encae; ní fitir immurgu olc n-etir intí bís isind encae.- He, then, who has the innocence knows and understands something of evil; he, however, does not know evil (at all) that is in the innocence.
Inflection
| Feminine iā-stem
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Singular
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Dual
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Plural
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enncaeL
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| Vocative
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enncaeL
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| Accusative
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enncaiN
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| Genitive
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enncae
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| Dative
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enncaiL
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Initial mutations of a following adjective:
- H = triggers aspiration
- L = triggers lenition
- N = triggers nasalization
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Descendants
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation
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Lenition |
Nasalization
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enncae
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)
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unchanged
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n-enncae
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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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