imeacht

Irish

Alternative forms

• imtheacht (superseded)

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /ɪˈmʲaxt̪ˠ/
• (Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈɪmʲəxt̪ˠ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈɨ̞mʲaxt̪ˠ/

Noun

imeacht m or f (genitive singular imeachta, nominative plural imeachtaí)

1. verbal noun of imigh
2. going, departure
3. passage (act of passing; movement across or through)
4. gait (horse's way of moving)
5. (in the plural) proceedings, transactions

Declension

Declension of imeacht

Third declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative imeacht imeachtaí Vocative a imeacht a imeachtaí Genitive imeachta imeachtaí Dative imeacht imeachtaí

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an t-imeacht na himeachtaí Genitive an imeachta na n-imeachtaí Dative leis an imeacht don imeacht leis na himeachtaí

Alternative declension

Declension of imeacht

Third declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative imeacht imeachtaí Vocative a imeacht a imeachtaí Genitive imeachta imeachtaí Dative imeacht imeachtaí

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an imeacht na himeachtaí Genitive na himeachta na n-imeachtaí Dative leis an imeacht don imeacht leis na himeachtaí

Derived terms

• Breatimeacht (“Brexit”)
• imeachtach (“going, moving, travelling; speedy”, adjective)
• imeachtaí m (“goer, traveller”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
imeacht	n-imeacht	himeacht	t-imeacht
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “imeacht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN