imich

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish immthigid, a form of Old Irish imm·téit (“go around, go away”), from imm (“around”) + téit (“goes”).

Verb

imich (past dh'imich, future imichidh, verbal noun imeachd, past participle imichte)

1. go, depart
2. walk
3. stir, budge
4. advance
5. come
6. operate (as a purgative medicine)

Mutation

Mutation of imich

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
imich	n-imich	h-imich	t-imich

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

Further reading

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “imich”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “imm·téit”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language