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Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Irish ingen (“daughter, girl, maiden, virgin”), from Primitive Irish ᚔᚅᚔᚌᚓᚅᚐ (inigena), from Proto-Celtic *enigenā, from Proto-Indo-European (compare Latin indigena (“native”), Ancient Greek ἐγγόνη (engónē, “granddaughter”)).
Pronunciation
Noun
iníon f (genitive singular iníne, nominative plural iníonacha)
- daughter
- girl, maiden; (young) woman
- Miss
Declension
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Derived terms
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical |
Eclipsis |
with h-prothesis |
with t-prothesis
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| iníon
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n-iníon
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hiníon
|
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
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “iníon”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 ingen”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 70