Irishize

English

Etymology

From Irish +‎ -ize.

Verb

Irishize (third-person singular simple present Irishizes, present participle Irishizing, simple past and past participle Irishized)

1. to make Irish.
   • 1899, The Devil in Robes, Or the Sin of Priests: The Gory Hand of Catholicism Stayed; the Prayers of Protestants Heard, page 318:

     I admit there are some recent importations of Catholics who would like to Germanize, Irishize, and whiskeyize America.

   • 1994, George Eisen, David Kenneth Wiggins, Ethnicity and Sport in North American History and Culture, Greenwood Press, →ISBN:

     What is not classical is that Carrora, in order to be a box-office attraction, had to Irishize his name.

   • 2007, Elise Juska, One for Sorrow, Two for Joy, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

     Noelle was the one who had inherited the Germanic half of their Irish-Germanic father—her skin tanned and her hair was mud brown, despite several botched attempts to Irishize it with powdered cherry Kool-Aid mix.

Translations

to make Irish

• Esperanto: irlandigi