immurgu
Appearance
Middle Irish
[edit]Adverb
[edit]immurgu
Old Irish
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Thurneysen[1] suggests it may be from imm- (intensive prefix) + ro- (“very”) + gáu (“untruth”), which seems unlikely both formally and semantically.
Stüber proposes another etymology from virtual Proto-Celtic *ambi-ɸro-gusom, i.e. imm- (“around”) + rogu (“choice”), but also struggles to provide a semantic derivation.[2]
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]immurgu (never the first word in its clause)
For quotations using this term, see Citations:immurgu.
Synonyms
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[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 907, page 560; reprinted 2017
- ^ Stüber, Karin (2015) Die Verbalabstrakta des Altirischen (in German), page 317
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “immurgu”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language