imirce

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish immirge, from Old Irish imm- + éirge.[2]

Pronunciation

Noun

imirce f (genitive singular imirce, nominative plural imircí)

  1. (the act of) removing, shifting (position)
  2. migration, emigration
    déan imirce ― to (e)migrate
  3. trek
  4. (literary) band of emigrants

Declension

Declension of imirce

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative imirce imircí
Vocative a imirce a imircí
Genitive imirce imircí
Dative imirce imircí

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an t-imirce na himircí
Genitive an imirce na n-imircí
Dative leis an imirce

don imirce

leis na himircí

Derived terms

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
imirce n-imirce himirce not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  1. ^ “imirce”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “immirge, immirc(h)e”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 283, page 100

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