ìmpire

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish impere, impire, from Latin imperium.

Noun

ìmpire m (genitive singular ìmpire, plural ìmpirean)

  1. emperor

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutation of ìmpire
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
ìmpire n-ìmpire h-ìmpire t-ìmpire

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

References

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “ìmpire”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →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
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