imirce

Irish

Alternative forms

  • imeirce, imirche, imirí, imirighe, imirghe[1]

Etymology

From Middle Irish immirge, from Old Irish imm- + éirge.[2]

Pronunciation

Noun

imirce f (genitive singular imirce, nominative plural imircí)

  1. (the act of) removing, shifting (position)
  2. migration, emigration
    déan imirce ― to (e)migrate
  3. trek
  4. (literary) band of emigrants

Declension

Declension of imirce (fourth declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative imirce imircí
vocative a imirce a imircí
genitive imirce imircí
dative imirce imircí
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an t-imirce na himircí
genitive an imirce na n-imircí
dative leis an imirce
don imirce 		leis na himircí

Derived terms

  • anamimirce (“transmigration of souls”)
  • ar imirce (“(e)migrating”)
  • éan imirce (“migratory bird”)
  • lucht imirce (“(e)migrants”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of imirce
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
imirce n-imirce himirce not applicable

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

References

  1. ^ “imirce”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “immirge, immirc(h)e”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Mhac an Fhailigh, Éamonn (1968) The Irish of Erris, Co. Mayo: A Phonemic Study, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, section 237, page 53
  4. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 283, page 100

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