inghean

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Irish

Noun

inghean f (genitive singular inghine, nominative plural ingheanacha)

  1. Superseded spelling of iníon.

Declension

Declension of inghean (second declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative inghean ingheanacha
vocative a inghean a ingheanacha
genitive inghine ingheanacha
dative inghean
inghin (archaic, dialectal) 		ingheanacha
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an inghean na hingheanacha
genitive na hinghine na n-ingheanacha
dative leis an inghean
leis an inghin (archaic, dialectal)
don inghean
don inghin (archaic, dialectal) 		leis na hingheanacha

Mutation

Mutated forms of inghean
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
inghean n-inghean hinghean not applicable

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

Further reading

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish ingen, from Primitive Irish ᚔᚅᚔᚌᚓᚅᚐ (inigena), from Proto-Celtic *enigenā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁én (“in”) + *ǵenh₁- (“produce, give birth”) (compare Latin indigena (“native”), Ancient Greek ἐγγόνη (engónē, “granddaughter”)). Ulster Irish níon and modern Scottish Gaelic nighean stem from the same Old Irish source, being metathesised descendants of Old Irish ingen.

Pronunciation

Noun

inghean f (genitive singular ìghne, plural ingheanan or ìghnean)

  1. (archaic) girl, maiden
  2. (archaic) daughter

References

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “inghean”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 ingen”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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