impíoch

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish impidech (“intercessor”).[3] By surface analysis, impí +‎ -ach

Noun

impíoch m (genitive singular impígh, nominative plural impígh)

  1. intercessor
  2. supplicant, petitioner

Declension

Declension of impíoch (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative impíoch impígh
vocative a impígh a impíocha
genitive impígh impíoch
dative impíoch impígh
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an t-impíoch na himpígh
genitive an impígh na n-impíoch
dative leis an impíoch
don impíoch 		leis na himpígh

Adjective

impíoch (genitive singular feminine impíche, plural impíocha, not comparable)

  1. intercessory
  2. imploring, entreating, appealing (making an appeal), beseeching, pleading
  3. suppliant

Declension

Declension of impíoch
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative impíoch impíoch impíocha
vocative impíoch impíocha
genitive impíche impíocha impíoch
dative impíoch impíoch impíocha
Comparative (not comparable)
Superlative (not comparable)

Mutation

Mutated forms of impíoch
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
impíoch n-impíoch himpíoch t-impíoch

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “impiḋeaċ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 396
  2. ^ “impíoch”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  3. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “impidech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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