iomaire
Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish immaire (“ridge, furrow”).
Noun
iomaire m or f (genitive singular iomaire, nominative plural iomairí or iomaireacha)
- (geography, agriculture, etc.) ridge, furrow
- (archaeology) cultivation ridge
- (agriculture) lazy-bed
Declension
Declension of iomaire
Bare forms
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Forms with the definite article
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Synonyms
- (lazy-bed): ainneor
Derived terms
- ag treabhadh an iomaire fhada (“dying”, literally “ploughing the long ridge”)
- iomaire ardbhrú (“ridge, wedge, of high pressure”)
- iomaire bán (“untilled strip, balk”)
- iomaire cinn (“headland strip”)
- iomaire críche (“boundary strip”)
- iomaire treafa (“ridge in ploughing”)
- iomaireach (“ridged; ribbed, waved, corrugated”, adjective)
Mutation
Irish mutation | |||
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Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
iomaire | n-iomaire | hiomaire | not applicable |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “iomaire”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “immaire”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language