imeachtrach

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish immechtrach (“outer, external, outside, further; extreme, final, utter”), from immechtar (“extremity, outside, end”). By surface analysis, imeachtar (“outer part, outside; outer region, outskirts”) +‎ -ach (adjectival suffix).

Adjective

imeachtrach (genitive singular masculine imeachtraigh, genitive singular feminine imeachtraí, plural imeachtracha, comparative imeachtraí)

1. outer, external; further, remote

Declension

Declension of imeachtrach

	Singular		Plural (m/f)
Positive	Masculine	Feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
Nominative	imeachtrach	imeachtrach	imeachtracha
Vocative	imeachtraigh		imeachtracha
Genitive		imeachtraí	imeachtracha	imeachtrach
Dative	imeachtrach	imeachtrach; imeachtraigh (archaic)	imeachtracha
Comparative	níos imeachtraí
Superlative	is imeachtraí

Mutation

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