Meiriceá

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from English America.

Pronunciation

  • (Munster) IPA(key): /mʲɛɾʲəˈcaː/
  • (Connacht) IPA(key): /ˈmʲɛɾʲəcɑː/
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈmʲɛɾʲəcæ/

Proper noun

Meiriceá m (genitive Mheiriceá)

  1. America, United States of America (a country in North America; in full, Stáit Aontaithe Mheiriceá m (“United States of America”))
    D’imigh m’uncail go Meiriceá. ― My uncle went to America.

Declension

Declension of Meiriceá (fourth declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative Meiriceá
vocative a Mheiriceá
genitive Meiriceá
dative Meiriceá
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an Meiriceá
genitive an Mheiriceá
dative leis an Meiriceá
don Mheiriceá

The definite article is not used with this word.

Synonyms

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of Meiriceá
radical lenition eclipsis
Meiriceá Mheiriceá not applicable

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

Further reading

  • “America”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025
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