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 Superseded spelling of iníon.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
RadicalEclipsiswith h-prothesiswith 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

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]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 ingen”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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