ionannas

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish inunnus (“identity, equality”). By surface analysis, ionann (“same, identical; alike, equal”) +‎ -as.

Noun

ionannas m (genitive singular ionannais)

1. sameness, identity; equality, uniformity, monotony

Declension

Declension of ionannas (first declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative ionannas vocative a ionannais genitive ionannais dative ionannas forms with the definite article case singular nominative an t-ionannas genitive an ionannais dative leis an ionannas don ionannas

Derived terms

• ball ionannais (“identity element”)
• comhionannas (“equality; congruence, uniformity”)
• cothromóid ionannais (“identical equation”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of ionannas

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
ionannas	n-ionannas	hionannas	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

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “ionannas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “inunnus”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language