ennac

Old Irish

Etymology

From Latin innocuus.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈen͈aɡ]

Adjective

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. 91^b7
  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

Declension

o/ā-stem
singular	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	ennac	ennac	ennac
vocative	ennaic* ennac**	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

*modifying a noun whose vocative is different from its nominative
**modifying a noun whose vocative is identical to its nominative
† not when substantivized

Derived terms

enncae

Descendants

Irish: eannach (obsolete)
Scottish Gaelic: eannach

Mutation

Mutation of *ennac*
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.