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From Middle Irish imrusgail, adapted to the suffix -áil.[2]
iomrascáil f (genitive singular iomrascála)
- wrestling (also functioning as a verbal noun with no finite forms)
Tá siad ag imorascáil.- They are wrestling.
- ^ “iomrascáil”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “imrascáil, imarscáil”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 226, page 115
