inghean

Irish

Noun

inghean f (genitive singular inghine, nominative plural ingheanacha)

1. superseded spelling of iníon

Declension

Declension of inghean (second declension)

bare forms singular plural nominative inghean ingheanacha vocative a inghean a ingheanacha genitive inghine ingheanacha dative inghean inghin (archaic, dialectal) ingheanacha forms with the definite article 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

Mutated forms of inghean

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
inghean	n-inghean	hinghean	not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 ingen”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language