innis

innis (present analytic innseann, future analytic innseochaidh, verbal noun innsint, past participle inniste)

1. Archaic form of inis (“tell”)

• innys
• insh
• ynnys

From Old Irish inis.

innis f (genitive singular innis, plural innisyn)

1. island
2. islet

• (island): ellan
• (islet): ellaneen, insheen

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

• IPA^(key): /ĩːʃ/

From Old Irish inis.

innis f (genitive singular innse, plural innsean or innseachan)

1. island, inch
2. meadow, pasture, haugh
3. sheltered valley protected by a wood.
4. headland
5. (Islay) Choice place
6. (Ross, Sutherland) A low-lying and sheltered place, where cows are gathered to be milked and where they lie out at night.
7. distress, misery

• (island): eilean

• innis-mhuir

From Middle Irish indisid (“tells, recounts, mentions, describes”).

innis (past dh'innis, future innsidh, verbal noun innse, past participle inniste)

1. tell
2. declare, relate
3. report, inform

• ath-innis (“capitulate”)
• leis an fhìrinn innse

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