ennac
Old Irish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
ennac
- innocent
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 91b7
- is dó du·gníinn-se anísin, combin cosmail fri encu
- It is for that [reason] that I used to do that, so that I might be like innocent ones
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 91b7
Declension edit
o/ā-stem | |||
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Singular | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
Nominative | ennac | ennac | ennac |
Vocative | ennaic* ennac** | ||
Accusative | ennac | ennaic | |
Genitive | ennaic | ennaice | ennaic |
Dative | ennuc | ennaic | ennuc |
Plural | Masculine | Feminine/neuter | |
Nominative | ennaic | enca | |
Vocative | encu enca† | ||
Accusative | encu enca† | ||
Genitive | ennac | ||
Dative | encaib | ||
Notes | *modifying a noun whose vocative is different from its nominative **modifying a noun whose vocative is identical to its nominative |
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
Mutation edit
Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
ennac | unchanged | n-ennac |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading edit
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “ennac”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language