ionadh
Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Irish ingnad, from Proto-Celtic *angnātos (“unknown, obscure”).
Pronunciation
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Noun
ionadh m (genitive singular ionaidh, nominative plural ionaí)
- surprise, wonder
- Níl ionadh orm.
- I’m not surprised.
- Is ionadh liom.
- I am surprised
- 1939, Peig Sayers, “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, printed in Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry, Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études 270. Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, p. 194:
- Do bhíodar sé mhí gan fille, agus nuair a chonaic Máire an t-árthach ag teacht chun cuain, bhí sceitimíní ar a croidhe le lúthgháir agus le h-áthas, ní nárbh’ iongnadh.
- They were [away] six months without returning, and when Máire saw the vessel coming to port, her heart had raptures of gladness and joy, which was not a surprise.
- Synonym: iontas
Declension
Declension of ionadh
Derived terms
- cuir ionadh ar (“to surprise”)
Mutation
Irish mutation | |||
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Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
ionadh | n-ionadh | hionadh | t-ionadh |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ingnad, ingnáth”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Template:R:ga:Dinneen
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ionadh”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
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