iníon

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See also: inion

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)

  1. daughter
  2. girl, maiden; (young) woman
  3. Miss

Declension

Declension of iníon (second declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative iníon iníonacha
vocative a iníon a iníonacha
genitive iníne iníonacha
dative iníon
inín (archaic, dialectal) 		iníonacha
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an iníon na hiníonacha
genitive na hiníne na n-iníonacha
dative leis an iníon
leis an inín (archaic, dialectal)
don iníon
don inín (archaic, dialectal) 		leis na hiníonacha

Coordinate terms

  • mac (“son”)

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of iníon
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
iníon n-iníon hiníon not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 47

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