innilt

Irish

Alternative forms
  • ingeilt, ingheilt, inghillt, inghilt, innillt (obsolete)[1]
  • ingilt (Ulster)

Etymology

From Middle Irish ingelt, from in- + Old Irish gelt (“grazing”), from Proto-Celtic *gʷeltā (compare Welsh gwellt (“grass”)).[2]

Pronunciation
  • (Waterford, Cork) IPA(key): /ˈɪɲɪlʲtʲ/
  • (Kerry) IPA(key): /ˈɪnʲəlʲtʲ/
  • (Connacht) IPA(key): /ˈɪn̠ʲəl̠ʲtʲ/
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈɪnʲɪɟɪl̠ʲtʲ/[3] (corresponding to the form ingilt)

Noun

innilt f (genitive singular innilte)

  1. grazing

Declension
Declension of innilt

Second declension

Bare forms (no plural form of this noun)

Case Singular
Nominative innilt
Vocative a innilt
Genitive innilte
Dative innilt

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular
Nominative an innilt
Genitive na hinnilte
Dative leis an innilt

don innilt

Mutation
Irish mutation
RadicalEclipsiswith h-prothesiswith t-prothesis
innilt n-innilt hinnilt not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  1. “innilt”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “ingelt”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 43

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