isteach

Irish

Alternative forms

  • 'steach (nonstandard)
  • a-steach, aisdeach, aisteach, asdeach, asteach, isdeach, sdeach, steach, stioch (obsolete)[1]

Etymology

From Old Irish istech (literally into the house).[2]

Pronunciation

Adverb

isteach

  1. in, inward, inside (moving towards the inside)

See also

References

  1. isteach”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “istech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 59
  4. Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 100
  5. Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 51

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