ingnae

Old Irish

Alternative forms

  • engnae

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈiŋɣne/

Noun

ingnae n (genitive ingnai or ingni, no plural)

  1. 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...

Inflection

The neuter gender of this term is inferred from that of its sister verbal nouns like etargne; it is not directly attested.

Neuter io-stem
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

Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
ingnae unchanged n-ingnae
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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