maighdeanas

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish *maigdenas (“maidenhead, virginity”) (compare Manx moidynys, Scottish Gaelic maighdeannas). By surface analysis, maighdean +‎ -as.

Noun

maighdeanas m (genitive singular maighdeanais)

1. maidenhood

   Synonyms: iníonacht, iníonas

2. virginity

   Synonym: ócht

Declension

Declension of maighdeanas (first declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative maighdeanas vocative a mhaighdeanais genitive maighdeanais dative maighdeanas forms with the definite article case singular nominative an maighdeanas genitive an mhaighdeanais dative leis an maighdeanas don mhaighdeanas

Mutation

Mutated forms of maighdeanas

radical	lenition	eclipsis
maighdeanas	mhaighdeanas	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) “maighdeanas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “maidenhood”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
• “virginity”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “maigdenas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language