immurgu
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Middle Irish[edit]
Adverb[edit]
immurgu
Old Irish[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Thurneysen[1] suggests it may be from imm- (intensive prefix) + ro- (“very”) + gáu (“untruth”), which seems unlikely both formally and semantically.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adverb[edit]
immurgu (never the first word in its clause)
For quotations using this term, see Citations:immurgu.
Synonyms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2017) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 907, page 560
Further reading[edit]
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “immurgu”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language