iníonacht

Irish

Alternative forms

• inghenacht (obsolete)

Etymology

From iníon (“daughter; girl, maiden; (young) woman”) +‎ -acht.

Noun

iníonacht f (genitive singular iníonachta)

1. daughterhood, girlhood, maidenhood

   Synonym: iníonas

Declension

Declension of iníonacht

Third declension

Bare forms (no plural for this noun): Case Singular Nominative iníonacht Vocative a iníonacht Genitive iníonachta Dative iníonacht

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Nominative an iníonacht Genitive na hiníonachta Dative leis an iníonacht don iníonacht

Mutation

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

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), “ingenacht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language