Meiriceá

Irish

Alternative forms

• Meireacá (Cois Fharraige)

Etymology

Borrowed from English America.

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /mʲɛɾʲəˈcaː/
• (Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈmʲɛɾʲəcɑː/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈmʲɛɾʲəcæ/

Proper noun

Meiriceá m (genitive Mheiriceá)

1. America

   D’imigh m’uncail go Meiriceá. ― My uncle went to America.

Declension

Declension of Meiriceá

Fourth declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative Meiriceá Vocative a Mheiriceá Genitive Meiriceá Dative Meiriceá

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Nominative an Meiriceá Genitive an Mheiriceá Dative leis an Meiriceá don Mheiriceá

The definite article is not used with this word.

Synonyms

• An tOileán Úr

Derived terms

• Meiriceá Láir m (“Central America”)
• Meiriceá Theas m (“South America”)
• Meiriceá Thuaidh m (“North America”)
• Meiriceánach (“American”)
• Stáit Aontaithe Mheiriceá m (“United States of America”)
• teileog Mheiriceá f (“American basswood”)

 

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
Meiriceá	Mheiriceá	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• “America”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024