iomarcach

Irish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle Irish imurcach.[2] By surface analysis, iomarca (“excess”) +‎ -ach (adjectival suffix).

Adjective

iomarcach (genitive singular masculine iomarcaigh, genitive singular feminine iomarcaí, plural iomarcacha, comparative iomarcaí)

  1. excessive, superfluous, redundant
Alternative forms
  • iomarcrach, iomarcradhach, iomarcúil

Etymology 2

Adjective

iomarcach (genitive singular masculine iomarcaigh, genitive singular feminine iomarcaí, plural iomarcacha, comparative iomarcaí)

  1. alternative form of armacach (“loving, tender”)

Declension

Declension of iomarcach
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative iomarcach iomarcach iomarcacha
vocative iomarcaigh iomarcacha
genitive iomarcaí iomarcacha iomarcach
dative iomarcach iomarcach;
iomarcaigh (archaic) 		iomarcacha
Comparative níos iomarcaí
Superlative is iomarcaí

Mutation

Mutated forms of iomarcach
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
iomarcach n-iomarcach hiomarcach 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. ^ 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 85
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “immarcach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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