Meiriceá

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Irish

Alternative forms

Meireacá (Cois Fharraige)

Etymology

Borrowed from English America.

Pronunciation

(Munster) IPA^(key): /mʲɛɾʲəˈcaː/
(Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈmʲɛɾʲəcɑː/
(Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈmʲɛɾʲəcæ/

Proper noun

Meiriceá m (genitive Mheiriceá)

America
D’imigh m’uncail go Meiriceá. ― My uncle went to America.

Declension

Declension of Meiriceá (fourth declension, no plural)

bare forms
case	singular
nominative	Meiriceá
vocative	a Mheiriceá
genitive	Meiriceá
dative	Meiriceá

forms with the definite article
case	singular
nominative	an Meiriceá
genitive	an Mheiriceá
dative	leis an Meiriceá don Mheiriceá

The definite article is not used with this word.

Synonyms

An tOileán Úr

Derived terms

Meiriceá Láir m (“Central America”)
Meiriceá Theas m (“South America”)
Meiriceá Thuaidh m (“North America”)
Meiriceánach (“American”)
Stáit Aontaithe Mheiriceá m (“United States of America”)
teileog Mheiriceá f (“American basswood”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of *Meiriceá*
radical	lenition	eclipsis
Meiriceá	Mheiriceá	not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

“America”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024

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