iníonas

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish ingenas, from Old Irish ingen (“daughter”). By surface analysis, iníon (“daughter”) +‎ -as.

Noun

iníonas m (genitive singular iníonais)

1. Synonym of iníonacht (“daughterhood, girlhood, maidenhood”)

Declension

Declension of iníonas (third declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative iníonas vocative a iníonas genitive iníonais dative iníonas forms with the definite article case singular nominative an iníonas genitive na hiníonais dative leis an iníonas don iníonas

Mutation

Mutated forms of iníonas

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
iníonas	n-iníonas	hiníonas	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), “ingenas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language