iomrascáil

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish imrusgail, adapted to the suffix -áil.[2]

Pronunciation

Noun

iomrascáil f (genitive singular iomrascála)

  1. wrestling (also functioning as a verbal noun with no finite forms)
    Tá siad ag imorascáil.
    They are wrestling.

Declension

Declension of iomrascáil (third declension, no plural)
bare forms
case singular
nominative iomrascáil
vocative a iomrascáil
genitive iomrascála
dative iomrascáil
forms with the definite article
case singular
nominative an iomrascáil
genitive na hiomrascála
dative leis an iomrascáil
don iomrascáil

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ iomrascáil”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “imrascáil, imarscáil”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 226, page 115

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