iníon

See also: inion

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish ingen (“daughter, girl, maiden, virgin”), from Primitive Irish ᚔᚅᚔᚌᚓᚅᚐ (inigena), from Proto-Celtic *enigenā, from Proto-Indo-European (compare Latin indigena (“native”), Ancient Greek ἐγγόνη (engónē, “granddaughter”)).

Pronunciation

Noun

iníon f (genitive singular iníne, nominative plural iníonacha)

  1. daughter
  2. girl, maiden; (young) woman
  3. Miss

Declension
Declension of iníon

Second declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative iníon iníonacha
Vocative a iníon a iníonacha
Genitive iníne iníonacha
Dative iníon
inín (archaic, dialectal)		 iníonacha

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an iníon na hiníonacha
Genitive na hiníne na n-iníonacha
Dative leis an iníon
leis an inín (archaic, dialectal)

don iníon
don inín (archaic, dialectal)

 leis na hiníonacha

Coordinate terms
  • mac (“son”)

Derived terms
  • gariníon f (“granddaughter; adopted daughter, niece”)
  • iníonacht f, iníonas m (“daughterhood, girlhood, maidenhood”)
  • iníon in aontumha f (“unmarried daughter; girl of marriageable age”)
  • iníonra f (“girls; group of girls”)
  • iníon rí f (“princess”)
  • iníonúil (“daughterly”)

Mutation
Irish mutation
RadicalEclipsiswith h-prothesiswith t-prothesis
iníon n-iníon hiníon not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading
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