imeachtar

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish im[m]echtar (“extremity, outside, end”).

Noun

imeachtar m (genitive singular imeachtair)

1. outer part, outside; outer region, outskirts

Declension

Declension of imeachtar

First declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative imeachtar Vocative a imeachtair Genitive imeachtair Dative imeachtar

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Nominative an t-imeachtar Genitive an imeachtair Dative leis an imeachtar don imeachtar

Synonyms

• (outskirts): ciumhais

Derived terms

• éadach imeachtair (“outer garment”)
• imeachtrach (“outer, external; further, remote”, adjective)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
imeachtar	n-imeachtar	himeachtar	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) “imeachtar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “immechtar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language