amach
See also: a-mach
Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish i mmach (literally “into the plain”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /əˈmˠax/
Adverb
amach
- (motion) out, outward
- back, away (from)
- forth, abroad
- facing outwards, exposed
- out, aloud
- (time) on
- completely
- just out (of)
- outbound, (of mail) outgoing
Derived terms
- amach is amach
- amach is isteach
- amach le
- amach ó
- amachaigí!
- bain amach
- bealach amach
- bris amach
- buail amach
- caith amach
- cuir amach
- déan amach
- éirigh amach
- fág amach
- leag amach
- lig amach
- luigh amach
- ó mo chroí amach
- os mo chomhair amach
- scaoil amach
- seas amach
- tabhair amach
- tar amach
- tarraing amach
- téigh amach ar
- tit amach
- uaidh seo amach
See also Category:Irish phrasal verbs formed with "amach"
See also
| point of reference | motion toward | stationary position at |
stationary position on the indicated side |
motion from |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| above, up | suas | thuas | lastuas | anuas |
| below, down | síos | thíos | laistíos | aníos |
| east | soir | thoir | lastoir | anoir |
| west/back | siar | thiar | laistiar | aniar |
| north | ó thuaidh | thuaidh | lastuaidh | aduaidh |
| south | ó dheas | theas | laisteas | aneas |
| northeast | soir ó thuaidh | thoir thuaidh | — | anoir aduaidh |
| northwest | siar ó thuaidh | thiar thuaidh | — | aniar aduaidh |
| southeast | soir ó dheas | thoir theas | — | anoir aneas |
| southwest | siar ó dheas | thiar theas | — | aniar aneas |
| over there | sall | thall | lastall | anall |
| over here | — | — | — | anonn |
| inside | isteach | istigh | laistigh | — |
| outside | amach | amuigh | lasmuigh | — |
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “amach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “immach, ammach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 97
- Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 33
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Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Irish abhac (“dwarf”), from Middle Irish abacc.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈamək/
Noun
amach
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 22