ennac

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Old Irish

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Etymology

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From Latin innocuus.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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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

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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

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Descendants

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

Mutation

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Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
ennac
(pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)
unchanged n-ennac
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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