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amhairc

amhairc

Irish

Noun

amhairc m

  1. genitive singular of amharc

Mutation

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

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish amarcaid (sees, beholds, views, verb), from amarc m (act of looking at; faculty of sight; object of sight, view, prospect).

Verb

amhairc (past dh'amhairc, future amhaircidh, verbal noun amharc, past participle amhaircte)

  1. look, observe, behold, see

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References

  • Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, ISBN 0 901771 92 9
  • amarcaid” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.