immurgu
Middle Irish
editAdverb
editimmurgu
Old Irish
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editThurneysen[1] suggests it may be from imm- (intensive prefix) + ro- (“very”) + gáu (“untruth”), which seems unlikely both formally and semantically.
Pronunciation
editAdverb
editimmurgu (never the first word in its clause)
For quotations using this term, see Citations:immurgu.
Synonyms
editDerived terms
editDescendants
editReferences
edit- ^ Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2017) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 907, page 560
Further reading
edit- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “immurgu”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language