aineoil

Irish

Alternative forms

• ainiúil

Etymology

From Old Irish aineóil (“unknown, strange, unfamiliar”), from the genitive form of aineól (“ignorance”), prefixed form of eól (“knowledge; acquaintance; experience (in), skill”).

Adjective

aineoil

1. (attributive) unknown, strange, untravelled, untrodden

Mutation

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

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “aineoil”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “aineóil”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language