Irish edit

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Middle Irish imurcach.[2] By surface analysis, iomarca (excess) +‎ -ach (adjectival suffix).

Adjective edit

iomarcach (genitive singular masculine iomarcaigh, genitive singular feminine iomarcaí, plural iomarcacha, comparative iomarcaí)

  1. excessive, superfluous, redundant
Alternative forms edit

Etymology 2 edit

Adjective edit

iomarcach (genitive singular masculine iomarcaigh, genitive singular feminine iomarcaí, plural iomarcacha, comparative iomarcaí)

  1. Alternative form of armacach (loving, tender)

Declension edit

Mutation edit

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

References edit

  1. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 85
  2. ^ G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “immarcach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading edit