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

Bare forms (no plural of this noun)

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

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
Meiriceá	Mheiriceá	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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

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