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inneach

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Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Middle Irish innech, indech,[2] from Proto-Celtic *ande- (inside) + the root of *wegyeti (to weave).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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inneach m (genitive singular innigh)

  1. (textiles) woof, weft
  2. (obsolete) inlay (material placed within another material as decoration)

Declension

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Declension of inneach (first declension, no plural)
bare forms
case singular
nominative inneach
vocative a innigh
genitive innigh
dative inneach
forms with the definite article
case singular
nominative an t-inneach
genitive an innigh
dative leis an inneach
don inneach

Derived terms

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Mutation

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Mutated forms of inneach
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
inneach n-inneach hinneach 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

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  1. ^ inneach”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “indech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 142
  4. ^ de Búrca, Seán (1958) The Irish of Tourmakeady, Co. Mayo: A Phonemic Study, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, section 192, page 37
  5. ^ Stockman, Gerard (1974) The Irish of Achill, Co. Mayo (Studies in Irish Language and Literature, Department of Celtic, Q.U.B.; vol. 2), Institute of Irish Studies, The Queen’s University of Belfast
  6. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 251, page 90

Further reading

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