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Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish i mmach (literally “into the plain”).
Pronunciation
Adverb
amach
- (motion) out, outward
- back, away (from)
- forth, abroad
- facing outwards, exposed
- out, aloud
- (time) on
- forward
- late
- completely
- just out (of)
- outbound, (of mail) outgoing
Derived terms
Descendants
See also Category:Irish phrasal verbs with particle (amach)
See also
Irish adverbs of direction and position
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “amach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “immach, ammach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 97
- Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 33
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Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Irish amach, not from Irish abhac (“dwarf”).
Pronunciation
Adverb
amach
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References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 22