indlat

Old Irish

Etymology

Created by the contamination of indmat by lám (“hand”).

Noun

indlat (gender unknown, genitive indlait)

1. Alternative form of indmat (“washing”)

Inflection

Neuter o-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	indlatN	—	—
Vocative	indlatN	—	—
Accusative	indlatN	—	—
Genitive	indlaitL	—	—
Dative	indlutL	—	—
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

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