aineagna

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish ainecnae (“foolishness, lack of enlightenment”), from ecnae (“wisdom, knowledge, enlightenment”). By surface analysis, ain- (negative prefix) +‎ eagna (“wisdom”).

Noun

aineagna f (genitive singular aineagna)

1. unwisdom

Declension

Declension of aineagna

Fourth declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative aineagna Vocative a aineagna Genitive aineagna Dative aineagna

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Nominative an aineagna Genitive na haineagna Dative leis an aineagna don aineagna

Mutation

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

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “aineagna”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 ainecnae”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language