imigh

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish immthigid, from Old Irish imm·téit (go around, go away),[1] from imm- (around) + téit (goes). Cognate with Scottish Gaelic imich and Manx immee.

Pronunciation

Verb

imigh (present analytic imíonn, future analytic imeoidh, verbal noun imeacht, past participle imithe)

  1. (intransitive) to go
  2. to leave, depart, go away
  3. to go on
  4. to go off, start off
  5. to get away, escape
  6. to move
  7. to pass (of time, etc.)
  8. to be lost
  9. to die away

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • imigh ar (become of)
  • imigh as (fade away)
  • imigh de (depart from)
  • imigh le (go away with)
  • imigh ó (go away from, leave)
  • imigh sall (pass away, pass on)

Mutation

Irish mutation
RadicalEclipsiswith h-prothesiswith t-prothesis
imigh n-imigh himigh not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  1. G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “imm-tét”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 101

Further reading

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