indlat

Old Irish

Etymology

Created by the contamination of indmat by lám (“hand”).

Noun

indlat (gender unknown, genitive indlait)

1. Alternative form of indmat (“washing”)

Inflection

Neuter o-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	indlatN	—	—
Vocative	indlatN	—	—
Accusative	indlatN	—	—
Genitive	indlaitL	—	—
Dative	indlutL	—	—
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

Mutation of indlat

radical	lenition	nasalization
indlat (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	n-indlat

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

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “indlat”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language