ìmpire

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish impere, impire, from Latin imperium.

Noun

ìmpire m (genitive singular ìmpire, plural ìmpirean)

  1. emperor

Derived terms

Mutation
Scottish Gaelic mutation
RadicalEclipsiswith h-prothesiswith t-prothesis
ìmpiren-ìmpireh-ìmpiret-ìmpire
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “ìmpire”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “impere, impire”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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