ionnas

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Irish

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Etymology

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From Old Irish indas (manner, method) (maybe originally a verbal noun of in·fét),[1][2] from Proto-Celtic *ande-wissum (compare fios).[3] Doublet of ionas.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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ionnas m (genitive singular ionnais, nominative plural ionnais) (literary)

  1. manner, way
    Synonyms: bealach, slí, caoi, dóigh
  2. nature, condition

Declension

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Derived terms

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Mutation

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

References

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  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “indas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Gordon, Randall Clark (2012) Derivational Morphology of the Early Irish Verbal Noun, Los Angeles: University of California, 3.1.46, page 227
  3. ^ Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 520
  4. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 85

Further reading

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