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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)
- go, depart
- walk
- stir, budge
- advance
- come
- operate (as a purgative medicine)
Mutation
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