ingenas

English

Noun

ingenas

1. plural of ingena

Anagrams

• seaning

Middle Irish

Etymology

From ingen (“daughter”) +‎ -as.

Noun

ingenas m

1. maidenhood, virginity
2. a defect in cows which prevents them being mated

Descendants

• Irish: iníonas

Mutation

Mutation of ingenas

radical	lenition	nasalization
ingenas (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	n-ingenas

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

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ingenas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language