iontach

Irish edit

From Old Irish ingantach (“wonderful, remarkable, strange; amazed, wonder-struck”), from ingnad (compare modern ionadh).

(Munster) IPA^(key): /ˈuːn̪ˠt̪ˠəx/ (as if spelled úntach)
(Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈiːn̪ˠt̪ˠəx/ (as if spelled aontach or íontach)
(Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈiːn̪ˠt̪ˠa(x)/, (older) /ˈɯːn̪ˠt̪ˠa(x)/^[1] (as if spelled aontach); /ˈeːn̪ˠt̪ˠa(x)/, (older) /ˈɤːn̪ˠt̪ˠa(x)/^[2] (as if spelled adhantach)

iontach (genitive singular masculine iontaigh, genitive singular feminine iontaí, plural iontacha, comparative iontaí)

wonderful (excellent, extremely impressive); surprising, strange
Tá an t-amhrán seo go hiontach.
This song is wonderful.

Takes the adverbial construction go hiontach when used predicatively after a form of bí.

Declension of iontach

Positive	Masculine	Feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
	Singular		Plural (m/f)
Nominative	iontach	iontach	iontacha
Vocative	iontaigh	iontach	iontacha
Genitive	iontaigh	iontaí	iontacha	iontach
Dative	iontach	iontach; iontaigh (archaic)	iontacha
Comparative	níos iontaí
Superlative	is iontaí

iontach

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

^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 29
^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 30

Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “iontach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Entries containing “iontach” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
Entries containing “iontach” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “ingantach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language