ionnas

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish indas (“status”), from Proto-Celtic *ind-astu-, from *ad-sta, from the root *sta.[1] Compare Latin status.

Noun

ionnas m (genitive singular ionnais, nominative plural ionnais)

  1. (archaic) state, condition, habit
  2. (archaic) status
  3. (archaic) equality

Declension
Declension of ionnas

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative ionnas ionnais
Vocative a ionnais a ionnasa
Genitive ionnais ionnas
Dative ionnas ionnais

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an t-ionnas na hionnais
Genitive an ionnais na n-ionnas
Dative leis an ionnas

don ionnas

 leis na hionnais

Synonyms

Derived terms

Mutation
Irish mutation
RadicalEclipsiswith h-prothesiswith t-prothesis
ionnas n-ionnas hionnas t-ionnas
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  1. MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911), “ionnas”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, →ISBN, page ionnas
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