inghean

Irish

Noun

inghean f (genitive singular inghine, nominative plural ingheanacha)

1. Superseded spelling of iníon.

Declension

Declension of inghean

Second declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative inghean ingheanacha Vocative a inghean a ingheanacha Genitive inghine ingheanacha Dative inghean inghin (archaic, dialectal) ingheanacha

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an inghean na hingheanacha Genitive na hinghine na n-ingheanacha Dative leis an inghean leis an inghin (archaic, dialectal) don inghean don inghin (archaic, dialectal) leis na hingheanacha

• Alternative nominative plural: ingheana

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
inghean	n-inghean	hinghean	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “inghean”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 398

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish ingen, from Primitive Irish ᚔᚅᚔᚌᚓᚅᚐ (inigena), from Proto-Celtic *enigenā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁én (“in”) + *ǵenh₁- (“produce, give birth”) (compare Latin indigena (“native”), Ancient Greek ἐγγόνη (engónē, “granddaughter”)). Ulster Irish níon and modern Scottish Gaelic nighean stem from the same Old Irish source, being metathesised descendants of Old Irish ingen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈinijan/

Noun

inghean f (genitive singular ìghne, plural ingheanan or ìghnean)

1. (archaic) girl, maiden
2. (archaic) daughter

References

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “inghean”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 ingen”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language