imeacht

Irish

Alternative forms

imtheacht (superseded)

Pronunciation

(Munster) IPA^(key): /ɪˈmʲaxt̪ˠ/
(Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈɪmʲəxt̪ˠ/
(Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈɨ̞mʲaxt̪ˠ/[1]

Noun

imeacht m or f (genitive singular imeachta, nominative plural imeachtaí)

verbal noun of imigh
going, departure
passage (act of passing; movement across or through)
gait (horse's way of moving)
(in the plural) proceedings, transactions

Declension

Declension of imeacht

Third declension

Bare forms:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	imeacht	imeachtaí
Vocative	a imeacht	a imeachtaí
Genitive	imeachta	imeachtaí
Dative	imeacht	imeachtaí

Forms with the definite article:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an t-imeacht	na himeachtaí
Genitive	an imeachta	na n-imeachtaí
Dative	leis an imeacht don imeacht	leis na himeachtaí

Alternative declension

Declension of imeacht

Third declension

Bare forms:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	imeacht	imeachtaí
Vocative	a imeacht	a imeachtaí
Genitive	imeachta	imeachtaí
Dative	imeacht	imeachtaí

Forms with the definite article:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an imeacht	na himeachtaí
Genitive	na himeachta	na n-imeachtaí
Dative	leis an imeacht don imeacht	leis na himeachtaí

Derived terms

Breatimeacht (“Brexit”)
imeachtach (“going, moving, travelling; speedy”, adjective)
imeachtaí m (“goer, traveller”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
imeacht	n-imeacht	himeacht	t-imeacht
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 101, page 40

Further reading

Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “imeacht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

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