Irish

Definition from Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jump to: navigation, search

English[edit]

Wikipedia has an article on:

Wikipedia

Wiktionary
Irish edition of Wiktionary

Etymology[edit]

Middle English Irisce (12th c.), from Old English Īras ‎(“Irishmen”), from Old Norse Írar, from Old Irish Ériu (modern Éire ‎(“Ireland”)), from Proto-Celtic *Īwerjū ‎(“fat land, fertile”), from Proto-Indo-European *pi-wer- ‎(“fertile”), literally "fat," akin to Ancient Greek πίειρα ‎(píeira, “fertile land”), Sanskrit पीवरी ‎(pīvarī, “fat”).

Pronunciation[edit]

Proper noun[edit]

Irish

  1. The Goidelic language indigenous to Ireland, also known as Irish Gaelic.
    Irish is the first official and national language of Ireland.‎
  2. A surname​.

Derived terms[edit]

Derived terms

Translations[edit]

Noun[edit]

Irish ‎(countable and uncountable, plural Irishes)

  1. (as plural) The Irish people.
  2. (uncountable, obsolete) A board game of the tables family.
  3. (uncountable, US) Temper; anger, passion.
    • 1834, David Crockett, A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett, Nebraska, published 1987, page 65:
      But her Irish was up too high to do any thing with her, and so I quit trying.
    • 1947, Hy Heath, John Lange, Clancy Lowered the Boom:
      Whenever he got his Irish up, Clancy lowered the boom.
    • 1997, Andrew M. Greeley, Irish Lace, page 296:
      The Priest is as fierce a fighter as I am when he gets his Irish up.
  4. (countable, uncountable) whiskey, or whisky, elaborated in Ireland.
    • 1889, Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men In A Boat:
      Harris said he'd had enough oratory for one night, and proposed that we should go out and have a smile, saying that he had found a place, round by the square, where you could really get a drop of Irish worth drinking.

Usage notes[edit]

Translations[edit]

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Help:How to check translations.
Translations to be checked

Adjective[edit]

Irish ‎(comparative more Irish, superlative most Irish)

  1. Pertaining to or originating from Ireland or the Irish people.
    Sheep are typical in the Irish landscape.‎
  2. Pertaining to the Irish language.
  3. (derogatory) nonsensical, daft or complex.
    • 1995, Irving Lewis Allen, The City in Slang: New York Life and Popular Speech:
      The slur continued with Irish confetti, a popular term for paving stones or Belgian bricks that were laid in New York streets beginning about 1832.

Derived terms[edit]

terms derived from Irish

Translations[edit]

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Help:How to check translations.
Translations to be checked

See also[edit]

External links[edit]

Anagrams[edit]

Retrieved from "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Irish&oldid=40835493"