imeachtrach

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish immechtrach (“outer, external, outside, further; extreme, final, utter”), from immechtar (“extremity, outside, end”). By surface analysis, imeachtar (“outer part, outside; outer region, outskirts”) +‎ -ach (adjectival suffix).

Adjective

imeachtrach (genitive singular masculine imeachtraigh, genitive singular feminine imeachtraí, plural imeachtracha, comparative imeachtraí)

  1. outer, external; further, remote

Declension

Declension of imeachtrach
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative imeachtrach imeachtrach imeachtracha
vocative imeachtraigh imeachtracha
genitive imeachtraí imeachtracha imeachtrach
dative imeachtrach imeachtrach;
imeachtraigh (archaic) 		imeachtracha
Comparative níos imeachtraí
Superlative is imeachtraí

Mutation

Mutated forms of imeachtrach
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
imeachtrach n-imeachtrach himeachtrach not applicable

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

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