imirce

Irish

Alternative forms
  • imeirce, imirche, imirí, imirighe, imirghe[1]

Etymology

From Middle Irish immirge, from Old Irish imm- + éirge.[2]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈɨ̞mʲəɾʲcɪ/[3]

Noun

imirce f (genitive singular imirce, nominative plural imircí)

  1. (the act of) removing, shifting (position)
  2. migration, emigration
    déan imirce ― to (e)migrate
  3. trek
  4. (literary) band of emigrants

Declension
Declension of imirce

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative imirce imircí
Vocative a imirce a imircí
Genitive imirce imircí
Dative imirce imircí

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an t-imirce na himircí
Genitive an imirce na n-imircí
Dative leis an imirce

don imirce

 leis na himircí

Derived terms
  • anamimirce (“transmigration of souls”)
  • ar imirce (“(e)migrating”)
  • éan imirce (“migratory bird”)
  • lucht imirce (“(e)migrants”)

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

References
  1. “imirce”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “immirge, immirc(h)e”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 100

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