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inghean f ‎(genitive singular inghine, nominative plural ingheanacha)

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

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

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

From Old Irish ingen, from Primitive Irish ᚔᚅᚔᚌᚓᚅᚐ ‎(inigena), from Proto-Celtic *eni-genā, from Proto-Indo-European [Term?] (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.

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

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

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
“1 ingen” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.