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Middle Irish
Adverb
immurgu
- Archaic form of immorro.
Old Irish
Etymology
Thurneysen[1] suggests it may be from imm- (intensive prefix) + ro- (“very”) + gáu (“untruth”), which seems unlikely both formally and semantically.
Stüber proposes another etymology from virtual Proto-Celtic *ambi-ɸro-gusom, i.e. imm- (“around”) + rogu (“choice”), but also struggles to provide a semantic derivation.[2]
Pronunciation
Adverb
immurgu (never the first word in its clause)
- however, nevertheless
For quotations using this term, see Citations:immurgu.
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References
- ^ Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 907, page 560; reprinted 2017
- ^ Stüber, Karin (2015) Die Verbalabstrakta des Altirischen (in German), page 317
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