iomaire

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish immaire (“ridge, furrow”).

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈʊmˠəɾʲə/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈʌmˠəɾʲə/

Noun

iomaire m or f (genitive singular iomaire, nominative plural iomairí or iomaireacha)

1. (geography, agriculture, etc.) ridge, furrow
2. (archaeology) cultivation ridge
3. (agriculture) lazy-bed

Declension

Declension of iomaire

Fourth declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative iomaire iomairí Vocative a iomaire a iomairí Genitive iomaire iomairí Dative iomaire iomairí

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an t-iomaire na hiomairí Genitive an iomaire na n-iomairí Dative leis an iomaire don iomaire leis na hiomairí

Synonyms

• (lazy-bed): ainneor

Derived terms

• ag treabhadh an iomaire fhada (“dying”, literally “ploughing the long ridge”)
• iomaire ardbhrú (“ridge, wedge, of high pressure”)
• iomaire bán (“untilled strip, balk”)
• iomaire cinn (“headland strip”)
• iomaire críche (“boundary strip”)
• iomaire treafa (“ridge in ploughing”)
• iomaireach (“ridged; ribbed, waved, corrugated”)

 

Mutation

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

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “iomaire”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “immaire”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language