ingnae
Old Irish
Alternative forms
- engnae
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈiŋɣne/
Noun
ingnae n (genitive ingnai or ingni, no plural)
- verbal noun of in·gnin: understanding, comprehension
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 11b6
- Is bées trá donaib dagforcitlidib molad ingni inna n-étside...
- It is a custom, then, of good teachers to praise the understanding of the hearers...
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 11b6
Inflection
The neuter gender of this term is inferred from that of its sister verbal nouns like etargne; it is not directly attested.
| singular | dual | plural | |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | ingnaeN | — | — |
| vocative | ingnaeN | — | — |
| accusative | ingnaeN | — | — |
| genitive | ingnaiL | — | — |
| dative | ingnuL | — | — |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
- H = triggers aspiration
- L = triggers lenition
- N = triggers nasalization
Mutation
| radical | lenition | nasalization |
|---|---|---|
| ingnae (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments) |
ingnae | n-ingnae |
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), “engnae, ingnae”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language