aineagna

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish ainecnae (“foolishness, lack of enlightenment”), from ecnae (“wisdom, knowledge, enlightenment”). By surface analysis, ain- (negative prefix) +‎ eagna (“wisdom”).

Noun

aineagna f (genitive singular aineagna)

1. unwisdom

Declension

Declension of aineagna (fourth declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative aineagna vocative a aineagna genitive aineagna dative aineagna forms with the definite article case singular nominative an aineagna genitive na haineagna dative leis an aineagna don aineagna

Mutation

Mutated forms of aineagna

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
aineagna	n-aineagna	haineagna	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

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “aineagna”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 ainecnae”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language