ennac
Old Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]ennac
- innocent
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 91b7
- is dó du·gníinn-se anísin, combin cosmail fri encu
- It is for that [reason] that I used to do that, so that I might be like innocent ones
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 91b7
Declension
[edit]| o/ā-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
| Nominative | ennac | ennac | ennac |
| Vocative | ennaic* ennac** | ||
| Accusative | ennac | ennaic | |
| Genitive | ennaic | ennaice | ennaic |
| Dative | ennuc | ennaic | ennuc |
| Plural | Masculine | Feminine/neuter | |
| Nominative | ennaic | enca | |
| Vocative | encu enca† | ||
| Accusative | encu enca† | ||
| Genitive | ennac | ||
| Dative | encaib | ||
| Notes | *modifying a noun whose vocative is different from its nominative **modifying a noun whose vocative is identical to its nominative | ||
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Mutation
[edit]| radical | lenition | nasalization |
|---|---|---|
| ennac (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments) |
unchanged | n-ennac |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ennac”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language