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From Middle Irish ingelt, from in- + Old Irish gelt (“grazing”), from Proto-Celtic *gʷeltā (compare Welsh gwellt (“grass”)).[2]
innilt f (genitive singular innilte)
- grazing
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
- ^ “innilt”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ingelt”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ “innilt”, in Irish Pronunciation Database, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 43
