impíoch

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish impidech (“intercessor”).[3] By surface analysis, impí +‎ -ach

Noun

impíoch m (genitive singular impígh, nominative plural impígh)

  1. intercessor
  2. supplicant, petitioner

Declension
Declension of impíoch

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative impíoch impígh
Vocative a impígh a impíocha
Genitive impígh impíoch
Dative impíoch impígh

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an t-impíoch na himpígh
Genitive an impígh na n-impíoch
Dative leis an impíoch

don impíoch

 leis na himpígh

Adjective

impíoch (genitive singular feminine impíche, plural impíocha, not comparable)

  1. intercessory
  2. imploring, entreating, appealing (making an appeal), beseeching, pleading
  3. suppliant

Declension
Declension of impíoch
Singular Plural (m/f)
Positive Masculine Feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
Nominative impíoch impíoch impíocha
Vocative impíoch impíocha
Genitive impíche impíocha impíoch
Dative impíoch impíoch impíocha
Comparative (not comparable)
Superlative (not comparable)

Mutation
Irish mutation
RadicalEclipsiswith h-prothesiswith t-prothesis
impíoch n-impíoch himpíoch t-impíoch
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  1. Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “impiḋeaċ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 396
  2. “impíoch”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  3. G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “impidech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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