ennac

Old Irish

Etymology

From Latin innocuus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈen͈aɡ]

Adjective

ennac

1. 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. 91^b7

     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

Declension

o/ā-stem
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 † not when substantivized

Derived terms

• enncae

Descendants

• Irish: eannach (obsolete)
• Scottish Gaelic: eannach

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
ennac (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	n-ennac
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), “ennac”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language