noídenacht

Old Irish

Etymology

noídiu +‎ -acht

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈn͈oːi̯ðʲenaxt/

Noun

noídenacht f

1. infancy, early childhood

Inflection

Feminine ā-stem

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	noídenachtL	—	—
vocative	noídenachtL	—	—
accusative	noídenachtN	—	—
genitive	noídenachtaeH	—	—
dative	noídenachtL	—	—

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

• ^H = triggers aspiration
• ^L = triggers lenition
• ^N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Middle Irish: noídendacht
  • Irish: naíonacht

Mutation

Mutation of noídenacht

radical	lenition	nasalization
noídenacht also nnoídenacht after a proclitic ending in a vowel	noídenacht pronounced with /n(ʲ)-/	unchanged

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), “noídenacht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language