enncae

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Old Irish

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Etymology

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A derivative of ennac (innocent).

Noun

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enncae f (genitive enncae, no plural)

  1. innocence
    • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 24a19
      Ro·fitir didiu ⁊ etir·gein ní dú ulc, intí lasmbí ind encae; ní fitir immurgu olc n-etir intí bís isind encae.
      He, then, who has the innocence knows and understands something of evil; he, however, does not know evil (at all) that is in the innocence.

Inflection

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Feminine iā-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative enncaeL
Vocative enncaeL
Accusative enncaiN
Genitive enncae
Dative enncaiL
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

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  • Middle Irish: enga, endgae

Mutation

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Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
enncae
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)
unchanged n-enncae
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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