imich

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Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish immthigid, a form of Old Irish imm·téit (“go around, go away”), from imm (“around”) + téit (“goes”).

Verb

imich (past dh'imich, future imichidh, verbal noun imeachd, past participle imichte)

  1. go, depart
  2. walk
  3. stir, budge
  4. advance
  5. come
  6. operate (as a purgative medicine)

Mutation

Mutation of imich
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
imich n-imich h-imich t-imich

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

Further reading

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “imich”, 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), “imm·téit”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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