Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/enigenā

This Proto-Celtic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Celtic

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h₁én (“in”) + *ǵenh₁- (“produce, give birth”).

Noun

*enigenā f

1. daughter

Inflection

Feminine ā-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*enigenā	*enigenai	*enigenās
vocative	*enigenā	*enigenai	*enigenās
accusative	*enigenam	*enigenai	*enigenāms
genitive	*enigenās	*enigenous	*enigenom
dative	*enigenāi	*enigenābom	*enigenābos
locative	*enigenai	*?	*?
instrumental	*?	*enigenābim	*enigenābis

Descendants

• Primitive Irish: ᚔᚅᚔᚌᚓᚅᚐ (inigena)
  • Old Irish: ingen
    • Middle Irish: ingen
      • Irish: iníon, inghean (superseded); inghin, inín (Connacht); nighean, níon (Ulster), inín
      • Manx: inneen
      • Scottish Gaelic: nighean, nigheann, inghean
    • ⇒ Middle Irish: ingenach
    • ⇒ Middle Irish: ingenas
      • Irish: iníonas

References

• Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*genetā”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 157