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Irish
Etymology
From Middle Irish *maigdenas (“maidenhead, virginity”) (compare Manx moidynys, Scottish Gaelic maighdeannas). By surface analysis, maighdean + -as.
Noun
maighdeanas m (genitive singular maighdeanais)
- maidenhood
- Synonyms: iníonacht, iníonas
- virginity
- Synonym: ócht
Declension
Declension of maighdeanas
Mutation
Irish mutation
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Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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maighdeanas
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mhaighdeanas
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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) “maighdeanas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- “maidenhood”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
- “virginity”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “maigdenas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language