imeacht

Irish

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

imeacht m or f (genitive singular imeachta, nominative plural imeachtaí)

  1. verbal noun of imigh
  2. going, departure
  3. passage (act of passing; movement across or through)
  4. gait (horse's way of moving)
  5. (in the plural) proceedings, transactions

Declension

Declension of imeacht (third declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative imeacht imeachtaí
vocative a imeacht a imeachtaí
genitive imeachta imeachtaí
dative imeacht imeachtaí
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an t-imeacht na himeachtaí
genitive an imeachta na n-imeachtaí
dative leis an imeacht
don imeacht
leis na himeachtaí
Alternative declension
Declension of imeacht (third declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative imeacht imeachtaí
vocative a imeacht a imeachtaí
genitive imeachta imeachtaí
dative imeacht imeachtaí
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an imeacht na himeachtaí
genitive na himeachta na n-imeachtaí
dative leis an imeacht
don imeacht
leis na himeachtaí

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of imeacht
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
imeacht n-imeacht himeacht t-imeacht

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

References

Further reading

  • Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “imṫeaċt”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 593; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN
  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “imeacht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN