innis

== Irish == === Verb === innis (present analytic innseann, future analytic innseochaidh, verbal noun innsint, past participle inniste) superseded spelling of inis (“tell”) === Mutation === == Scottish Gaelic == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ĩːʃ/ === Etymology 1 === From Old Irish inis. ==== Noun ==== innis f (genitive singular innse, plural innsean or innseachan) A small island; an islet; an inch. A meadow, pasture, field, or haugh: an inch. A sheltered valley protected by a wood. A headland. (Islay) A choice place. (Ross-shire, Sutherland) A low-lying and sheltered place, where cows are gathered to be milked and where they lie out at night. Distress or misery. ===== Synonyms ===== (island): eilean ===== Derived terms ===== innis-mhuir ===== Descendants ===== → Scots: inch → English: inch (“small island”) === Etymology 2 === From Middle Irish indisid (“tells, recounts, mentions, describes”). ==== Verb ==== innis (past dh'innis, future innsidh, verbal noun innse, past participle inniste) to tell to declare, relate to report, inform ===== Derived terms ===== ath-innis (“capitulate”) leis an fhìrinn innse a dh'innse na fìrinn === References === Edward Dwelly (1911), “innis”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 inis”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “indisid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language