iontach

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Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Irish ingantach (wonderful), from ingnad (compare modern ionadh).[1]

Pronunciation

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  • (Munster) IPA(key): /ˈuːn̪ˠt̪ˠəx/ (as if spelled úntach)
  • (Connacht) IPA(key): /ˈiːn̪ˠt̪ˠəx/ (as if spelled aontach or íontach)
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈiːn̪ˠt̪ˠa(x)/, (older) /ˈɯːn̪ˠt̪ˠa(x)/[2] (as if spelled aontach); /ˈeːn̪ˠt̪ˠa(x)/, (older) /ˈɤːn̪ˠt̪ˠa(x)/[3] (as if spelled adhantach)

Adjective

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iontach (genitive singular masculine iontaigh, genitive singular feminine iontaí, plural iontacha, comparative iontaí)

  1. wonderful (excellent, extremely impressive); surprising, strange
    Tá an t-amhrán seo go hiontach.
    This song is wonderful.

Usage notes

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Takes the adverbial construction go hiontach when used predicatively after a form of .

Declension

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Adverb

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iontach

  1. (Ulster) very, extremely

Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
iontach n-iontach hiontach not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ingantach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 67, page 29
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 70, page 30

Further reading

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