immee

From Middle Irish immthigid, from Old Irish imm·téit (“go around, go away”), from imm (“around”) + téit (“goes”). Cognate with Irish imigh and Scottish Gaelic imich.

The future forms hed, jed are cognate with Scottish Gaelic thèid, tèid, and come from Old Irish téit in its lenited and eclipsed forms respectively.

The conditional form ragh is from Old Irish ·regad, the conditional tense of téit, and is cognate with Irish and Scottish Gaelic rachadh.

The past tense form hie is from Old Irish (du)·choaid, lenited form of du·coaid, the perfect tense of téit and is cognate with Irish chuaigh, Scottish Gaelic chaidh, and Classical Gaelic do-chuaidh.

The verbal noun goll is from Old Irish gabál and is cognate with Scottish Gaelic gabhail, Irish gabháil and probably Connacht Irish goil.

immee (verbal noun goll)

1. go

• gow (in the imperative only)

• immeeaght

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “imm·téit”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language