amhairc

Irish

Pronunciation

• (Connacht) IPA^(key): [ˈafˠɪɾʲc]

Noun

amhairc m

1. genitive singular of amharc

Mutation

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

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish amarcaid (“sees, beholds, views”, verb), from amarc m (“act of looking at; faculty of sight; object of sight, view, prospect”).

Verb

amhairc (past dh'amhairc, future amhaircidh, verbal noun amharc, past participle amhaircte)

1. look, observe, behold, see

Synonyms

• coimhead
• faic
• seall

Derived terms

• dian-amhairc

References

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “amhairc”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “amarcaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language