ennac

Old Irish

Etymology

From Latin innocuus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈen͈aɡ]

Adjective

ennac

  1. innocent
    • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 91b7
      is dó du·gníinn-se anísin, combin cosmail fri encu
      It is for that [reason] that I used to do that, so that I might be like innocent ones

Declension

o/ā-stem
Singular Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative ennac ennac ennac
Vocative ennaic*
ennac**
Accusative ennac ennaic
Genitive ennaic ennaice ennaic
Dative ennuc ennaic ennuc
Plural Masculine Feminine/neuter
Nominative ennaic enca
Vocative encu
enca
Accusative encu
enca
Genitive ennac
Dative encaib
Notes *modifying a noun whose vocative is different from its nominative

**modifying a noun whose vocative is identical to its nominative
† not when substantivized

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Irish: eannach (obsolete)
  • Scottish Gaelic: eannach

Mutation

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

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