iníon

See also: inion

Irish

Alternative forms

• inghean (superseded)
• inghin, inín (Connacht)
• nighean, níon (Ulster)

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

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /ɪˈnʲiːn̪ˠ/
• (Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈɪnʲiːnʲ/ (corresponding to the spelling inín)
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /n̠ʲiənˠ/, /n̠ʲiən̪ˠ/ (corresponding to the spelling níon)

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

 

Mutation

Mutated forms of iníon

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
iníon	n-iníon	hiníon	not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “iníon”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 ingen”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 70