inghean

Irish

Noun

inghean f (genitive singular inghine, nominative plural ingheanacha)

Superseded spelling of iníon.

Declension

Declension of inghean

Second declension

Bare forms

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	inghean	ingheanacha
Vocative	a inghean	a ingheanacha
Genitive	inghine	ingheanacha
Dative	inghean inghin (archaic, dialectal)	ingheanacha

Forms with the definite article

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an inghean	na hingheanacha
Genitive	na hinghine	na n-ingheanacha
Dative	leis an inghean leis an inghin (archaic, dialectal) don inghean don inghin (archaic, dialectal)	leis na hingheanacha

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
inghean	n-inghean	hinghean	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish ingen, from Primitive Irish ᚔᚅᚔᚌᚓᚅᚐ (inigena), from Proto-Celtic *enigenā, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁én (“in”) + *ǵenh₁- (“produce, give birth”) (compare Latin indigena (“native”), Ancient Greek ἐγγόνη (engónē, “granddaughter”)). Ulster Irish níon and modern Scottish Gaelic nighean stem from the same Old Irish source, being metathesised descendants of Old Irish ingen.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈinijan/

Noun

inghean f (genitive singular ìghne, plural ingheanan or ighnean)

(archaic) girl, maiden
(archaic) daughter

References

Edward Dwelly (1911), “inghean”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 ingen”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language