ionnas

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Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish indas (“manner, method”) (maybe originally a verbal noun of in·fét),[1][2] from Proto-Celtic *ande-wissu (compare fios).[3] Doublet of ionas.

Pronunciation

Noun

ionnas m (genitive singular ionnais, nominative plural ionnais) (literary)

  1. manner, way
    Synonyms: bealach, slí, caoi, dóigh
  2. nature, condition

Declension

Declension of ionnas

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative ionnas ionnais
Vocative a ionnais a ionnasa
Genitive ionnais ionnas
Dative ionnas ionnais

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an t-ionnas na hionnais
Genitive an ionnais na n-ionnas
Dative leis an ionnas

don ionnas

leis na hionnais

Derived terms

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
ionnas n-ionnas hionnas t-ionnas
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “indas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Gordon, Randall Clark (2012) Derivational Morphology of the Early Irish Verbal Noun, Los Angeles: University of California, 3.1.46, page 227
  3. ^ Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 520
  4. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 85

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