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

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
noídenacht also nnoídenacht after a proclitic ending in a vowel	noídenacht pronounced with /n(ʲ)-/	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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