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aineolas

aineolas

Irish

Noun

aineolas m (genitive singular aineolais)

  1. ignorance; inexperience

Declension

Synonyms

Related terms

  • aineolach (ignorant, uninformed; inexperienced, adj)
  • aineolaí m (ignorant, inexperienced, person)

Mutation

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

References


Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish aineólas (ignorance), from eólas (knowledge). Synchronically, ain- + eòlas.

Noun

aineolas m (genitive singular aineolais, no plural)

  1. ignorance, want of knowledge, nescience, illiterateness

Related terms

References

  • Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, ISBN 0 901771 92 9
  • aineólas” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.