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English
Pronunciation
Noun
impire (plural impires)
- Obsolete form of empire.
Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish impere, impire, from Latin imperium.
Noun
impire m (genitive singular impire, nominative plural impirí)
- emperor
Declension
Derived terms
Mutation
Irish mutation
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Radical |
Eclipsis |
with h-prothesis |
with t-prothesis
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impire
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n-impire
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himpire
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t-impire
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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
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “impire”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “impere, impire”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Scottish Gaelic
Noun
impire m (genitive singular impire, plural impirean)
- Alternative form of ìmpire
Mutation
Walloon
Pronunciation
Noun
impire m (plural impires)
- empire