amárach

See also: amarach

Irish

Alternative forms

• amáireach (Cois Fharraige; Muskerry; Ulster)
• i mbárach (superseded)

Etymology

From Old Irish i mbárach (“tomorrow”), from bárach (“morrow”), from Proto-Celtic *bāregos (“morning”) (compare Welsh bore, Cornish bore, Breton beure), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *mr̥Hko- (compare English morning, Lithuanian mérkti (“to blink, twinkle”), Sanskrit मरीचि (marīci, “ray of light”)), from *mer- (“to shimmer, shine”) (compare Greek μέρα (méra, “morning”)), but the phonetic development would be highly irregular and unexplained.

Pronunciation

• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /əˈmˠaːɾa(x)/

Inapplicable to Munster and most of (Southern) Connacht, where amáireach (from i mbáireach) is the traditional word-form used.

Adverb

amárach

1. tomorrow

   Beidh sé críochnaithe agam amárach. ― I will have finished it tomorrow.

   Beidh siad ag teacht amárach. ― They’re coming tomorrow.

   Ní bheidh mé anseo amárach. ― I won’t be here tomorrow.

Derived terms

• arú amárach (“day after tomorrow”)

Further reading

• "amárach" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “bárach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 51