immurgu
Middle Irish
Old Irish
Alternative forms
- immargu, imurgu
- im̅, im̅r (abbreviations)
Etymology
Thurneysen[1] suggests it may be from imm- (intensive prefix) + ro- (“very”) + gáu (“untruth”), which seems unlikely both formally and semantically.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /iˈmurɣu/
Adverb
immurgu (never the first word in its clause)
For quotations using this term, see Citations:immurgu.
Synonyms
Derived terms
References
- 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
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “immurgu”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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