iníonacht

Irish

Alternative forms

• inghenacht (obsolete)

Etymology

From iníon (“daughter; girl, maiden; (young) woman”) +‎ -acht.

Noun

iníonacht f (genitive singular iníonachta)

1. daughterhood, girlhood, maidenhood

   Synonym: iníonas

Declension

Declension of iníonacht (third declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative iníonacht vocative a iníonacht genitive iníonachta dative iníonacht forms with the definite article case singular nominative an iníonacht genitive na hiníonachta dative leis an iníonacht don iníonacht

Mutation

Mutated forms of iníonacht

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
iníonacht	n-iníonacht	hiníonacht	not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “iníonacht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ingenacht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language