Meiriceá

Irish

Alternative forms

• Meireacá (Cois Fharraige)

Etymology

Borrowed from English America.

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /mʲɛɾʲəˈcaː/
• (Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈmʲɛɾʲəcɑː/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈmʲɛɾʲəcæ/

Proper noun

Meiriceá m (genitive Mheiriceá)

1. America

   D’imigh m’uncail go Meiriceá. ― My uncle went to America.

Declension

Declension of Meiriceá (fourth declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative Meiriceá vocative a Mheiriceá genitive Meiriceá dative Meiriceá forms with the definite article case singular nominative an Meiriceá genitive an Mheiriceá dative leis an Meiriceá don Mheiriceá

The definite article is not used with this word.

Synonyms

• An tOileán Úr

Derived terms

• Meiriceá Láir m (“Central America”)
• Meiriceá Theas m (“South America”)
• Meiriceá Thuaidh m (“North America”)
• Meiriceánach (“American”)
• Stáit Aontaithe Mheiriceá m (“United States of America”)
• teileog Mheiriceá f (“American basswood”)

 

Mutation

Mutated forms of Meiriceá

radical	lenition	eclipsis
Meiriceá	Mheiriceá	not applicable

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

Further reading

• “America”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024