immurgu

Middle Irish

Adverb

immurgu

  1. archaic form of immorro

Old Irish

Alternative forms

  • immargu, imurgu
  • im̅, im̅r (abbreviations)

Etymology

Thurneysen[1] suggests it may be from imm- (intensive prefix) + ro- (“very”) + gáu (“untruth”), which seems unlikely both formally and semantically.

Stüber proposes another etymology from virtual Proto-Celtic *ambi-ɸro-gusom, i.e. imm- (“around”) +‎ rogu (“choice”), but also struggles to provide a semantic derivation.[2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /iˈmurɣu/

Adverb

immurgu (never the first word in its clause)

  1. however, nevertheless

For quotations using this term, see Citations:immurgu.

Synonyms

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Middle Irish: immorro, immurgu (archaic)
    • Irish: iomorra

References

  1. ^ Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) [1909] D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, translation of Handbuch des Alt-Irischen (in German), →ISBN, § 907, page 560; reprinted 2017
  2. ^ Stüber, Karin (2015) Die Verbalabstrakta des Altirischen (in German), page 317

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