iomarcach

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Irish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle Irish imurcach.[2] By surface analysis, iomarca (“excess”) +‎ -ach (adjectival suffix).

Adjective

iomarcach (genitive singular masculine iomarcaigh, genitive singular feminine iomarcaí, plural iomarcacha, comparative iomarcaí)

  1. excessive, superfluous, redundant
Alternative forms

Etymology 2

Adjective

iomarcach (genitive singular masculine iomarcaigh, genitive singular feminine iomarcaí, plural iomarcacha, comparative iomarcaí)

  1. Alternative form of armacach (“loving, tender”)

Declension

Declension of iomarcach
singular plural (m/f)
Positive masculine feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
nominative iomarcach iomarcach iomarcacha
vocative iomarcaigh iomarcacha
genitive iomarcaí iomarcacha iomarcach
dative iomarcach iomarcach;
iomarcaigh (archaic) 		iomarcacha
Comparative níos iomarcaí
Superlative is iomarcaí

Mutation

Mutated forms of iomarcach
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
iomarcach n-iomarcach hiomarcach not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 85
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “immarcach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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