inneen

Manx

Alternative forms

• 'nneen

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”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɪnˈjiːn]

Noun

inneen f (genitive singular inneen, plural inneenyn)

1. daughter

   Eshyn ta geddyn drogh chleuin t'eh coayl inneen. ― He who gets a bad son-in-law loses a daughter.

   Hymnee eh e argid er e 'nneen. ― He left his money to his daughter.

   Ta 'neen echey jeh'n eash ayd. ― He has a daughter your age.

   Ta 'nneen echey uneashagh rhyt. ― He has a daughter your age.

   Ta troor dy 'neenyn eck dy chur ayns poosey. ― She has three daughters to marry off.

   T'eh son cur Moirrey er e 'neen. ― He is going to call his daughter Mary.

References

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