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Irish
Etymology
From Middle Irish ingenas, from Old Irish ingen (“daughter”). By surface analysis, iníon (“daughter”) + -as.
Noun
iníonas m (genitive singular iníonais)
- Synonym of iníonacht (“daughterhood, girlhood, maidenhood”)
Declension
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical |
Eclipsis |
with h-prothesis |
with t-prothesis
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| iníonas
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n-iníonas
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hiníonas
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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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Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “iníonacht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “ingenas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language