ionnas

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish indas (“manner, method”) (maybe originally a verbal noun of in·fét),[1][2] from Proto-Celtic *ande-wissu (compare fios).[3] Doublet of ionas.

Pronunciation

  • (Munster) IPA(key): /ˈɯn̪ˠəsˠ/, /ˈʊn̪ˠəsˠ/[4]

Noun

ionnas m (genitive singular ionnais, nominative plural ionnais) (literary)

  1. manner, way
    Synonyms: bealach, slí, caoi, dóigh
  2. nature, condition

Declension

Declension of ionnas (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative ionnas ionnais
vocative a ionnais a ionnasa
genitive ionnais ionnas
dative ionnas ionnais
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an t-ionnas na hionnais
genitive an ionnais na n-ionnas
dative leis an ionnas
don ionnas 		leis na hionnais

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of ionnas
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
ionnas n-ionnas hionnas t-ionnas

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

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “indas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Gordon, Randall Clark (2012) Derivational Morphology of the Early Irish Verbal Noun, Los Angeles: University of California, 3.1.46, page 227
  3. ^ Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen [Comparative Grammar of the Celtic Languages] (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 520
  4. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 85

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