ingnae

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• engnae

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈiŋɣne/

Noun

ingnae n (genitive ingnai or ingni, no plural)

1. verbal noun of in·gnin: understanding, comprehension
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 11^b6

     Is bées trá donaib dagforcitlidib molad ingni inna n-étside...

     It is a custom, then, of good teachers to praise the understanding of the hearers...

Inflection

The neuter gender of this term is inferred from that of its sister verbal nouns like etargne; it is not directly attested.

Neuter io-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ingnaeN	—	—
Vocative	ingnaeN	—	—
Accusative	ingnaeN	—	—
Genitive	ingnaiL	—	—
Dative	ingnuL	—	—
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
ingnae	unchanged	n-ingnae
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “engnae, ingnae”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language