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ionraic

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Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Middle Irish inraic, indraic, from Old Irish inricc (worthy; legal).

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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ionraic (genitive singular masculine ionraic, genitive singular feminine ionraice, plural ionraice, comparative ionraice)

  1. honest, sincere, upright
  2. artless, guileless

Declension

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Declension of ionraic
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative ionraic ionraic ionraice
vocative ionraic ionraice
genitive ionraice ionraice ionraic
dative ionraic ionraic ionraice
Comparative níos ionraice
Superlative is ionraice

Synonyms

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Derived terms

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Mutation

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Mutated forms of ionraic
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
ionraic n-ionraic hionraic not applicable

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

References

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  1. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 89

Further reading

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Scottish Gaelic

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Middle Irish inraic, indraic, from Old Irish inricc (worthy, trustworthy, qualified to perform certain legal functions; of standard quality or quantity, complying with certain requirements, legal).

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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ionraic (comparative ionraice)

  1. chaste, faithful, honest, innocent, just, righteous

Derived terms

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  • eas-ionraic (dishonest; faithless; wicked, adjective)
  • mì-ionraic (dishonest, unjust, unrighteous, adjective)

Mutation

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Mutation of ionraic
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
ionraic n-ionraic h-ionraic t-ionraic

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

Further reading

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  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “ionraic”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “indraic”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language