iongantas

Irish

Noun

iongantas m (genitive singular iongantais, nominative plural iongantais)

  1. superseded spelling of iontas

Declension

Declension of iongantas (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative iongantas iongantais
vocative a iongantais a iongantasa
genitive iongantais iongantas
dative iongantas iongantais
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an t-iongantas na hiongantais
genitive an iongantais na n-iongantas
dative leis an iongantas
don iongantas 		leis na hiongantais

Mutation

Mutated forms of iongantas
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
iongantas n-iongantas hiongantas t-iongantas

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish ingantus,[1] from the same root as ingnad, from Proto-Celtic *angnātos (“unknown, obscure”), from Proto-Indo-European *n̥- (“not”) + *ǵn̥h₃-tós, past participle of *ǵneh₃- (“to know”). Cognate with Irish iontas and Manx yindys.

Pronunciation

Noun

iongantas m (genitive singular iongantais)

  1. wonder, surprise

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ingantus”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Oftedal, M. (1956) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. III: The Gaelic of Leurbost, Isle of Lewis, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
  3. ^ Rev. C. M. Robertson (1902) “Skye Gaelic”, in Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness, Volume XXIII: 1898-99‎[1], Gaelic Society of Inverness, pages 54-88
  4. ^ Roy Wentworth (2003) Gaelic Words and Phrases From Wester Ross / Faclan is Abairtean à Ros an Iar, Inverness: CLÀR, →ISBN
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