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Irish
Etymology
From Middle Irish impidech (“intercessor”). By surface analysis, impí + -ach
Noun
impíoch m (genitive singular impígh, nominative plural impígh)
- intercessor
- supplicant, petitioner
Declension
Adjective
impíoch (genitive singular feminine impíche, plural impíocha, not comparable)
- intercessory
- imploring, entreating, appealing (making an appeal), beseeching, pleading
- suppliant
Declension
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Singular
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Plural (m/f)
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Positive
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Masculine
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Feminine
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(strong noun)
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(weak noun)
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Nominative
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impíoch
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impíoch
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impíocha
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Vocative
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impíoch
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impíocha
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Genitive
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impíche
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impíocha
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impíoch
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Dative
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impíoch
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impíoch
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impíocha
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Comparative
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(not comparable)
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Superlative
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(not comparable)
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Mutation
Irish mutation
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Radical |
Eclipsis |
with h-prothesis |
with t-prothesis
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impíoch
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n-impíoch
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himpíoch
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t-impíoch
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Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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References
- ^ Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “impiḋeaċ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 396
- ^ “impíoch”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “impidech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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