ingantus

Old Irish

Alternative forms

ingantos

Etymology

From ingnad (“strange, wonderful”) +‎ -us.

Noun

ingantus m

wonder, astonishment

Declension

Masculine u-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	ingantus	—	—
vocative	ingantus	—	—
accusative	ingantus^N	—	—
genitive	ingantuso^H, ingantusa^H	—	—
dative	ingantus^L	—	—

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

^H = triggers aspiration
^L = triggers lenition
^N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

Irish: iontas
Manx: yindys
Scottish Gaelic: iongantas

Mutation

Mutation of *ingantus*
radical	lenition	nasalization
ingantus (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	ingantus	n-ingantus

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old 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), “ingantus”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language