From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
[wikipedia] [code=ga]
*** Etymology
From [en] (12th c.), from [en], from [en], from [en], from [en] (modern [ga]),
further origin heavily debated but probably from [en], from [en], from
[ine-pro], akin to [grc], [sa].
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [ī'rĭsh] , [en]
- [īə'rĭsh] , [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Proper noun
[en-prop]
1. [en] [en] The Gaelic language indigenous to Ireland , also known as Irish Gaelic .
2. [en] The Irish people.
3. * [en]
4. [en] .
5. [en] .
**** Usage notes
- Use _Irishman_ , _Irishwoman_ , _Irish person_ , etc for one singular person.
**** Derived terms
{{col3|en |black Irish |Connacht Irish |Irish English |Munster
Irish|Scots-Irish |Scotch-Irish |Scotch Irish |smoked Irish |Ulster Irish }}
**** Translations
[the language]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Asturian: [ast]
- Basque: [eu] , [eu]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be] , [be] , [be]
- Breton: [br]
- Catalan: [ca] , [ca]
- Cherokee: [chr]
- Chinese:
- Cornish: [kw]
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et]
- Faroese: [fo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- Georgian: [ka] , [ka]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Irish: [ga] , [ga] , [ga] , [ga]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Khmer: [km]
- Korean: [ko]
- Latvian: [lv] , [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt] , [lt]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Maltese: [mt]
- Manx: [gv]
- Marathi: [mr]
- Navajo: [nv]
- Norwegian:
- Persian: [fa]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru]
- Scots: [sco]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Tigrinya: [ti]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
- Urdu: [ur] , [ur]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
- Volapük: [vo]
- Welsh: [cy]
- West Frisian: [fy]
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[the people]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be] , [be] , [be] [Taraškievica]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs] , [cs]
- Faroese: [fo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- Georgian: [ka] , [ka]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Hawaiian: [haw]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Irish: [ga] , [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Latvian: [lv] , [lv]
- Macedonian: [mk] [collectively] , [mk] , [mk]
- Marathi: [mr]
- Navajo: [nv]
- Old Norse: [non]
- Persian: [fa]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] [collectively] , [ru] , [ru]
- Scots: [sco]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: [sk] , [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
- Urdu: [ur] , [ur]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
- Welsh: [cy] , [literary] [cy]
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*** Noun
[~]
1. [en] A board game of the tables family.
2. [en] Temper ; anger, passion .
3. * [en]
4. * [en]
5. * [en]
6. [en] Whiskey , or whisky , elaborated in Ireland.
7. * [passage=Harris said he'd had enough oratory for one night, and proposed that we should go out and have a smile, saying that he had found a place, round by the square, where you could really get a drop of IRISH worth drinking.]
**** Derived terms
[en]
**** Translations
[board game]
- Polish: [pl]
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[checktrans-top]<!-- most translations in ‘people collectively’ only mention
one person, which would be a translation of Irishman or Irishwoman, not of
"the Irish"-->
- Breton: [br]
- Danish: [da] , [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et]
- Faroese: [fo]
- Italian: [it]
- Lithuanian: [lt] , [lt]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
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*** Adjective
[en-adj]
1. Pertaining to or originating from Ireland or the Irish people.
2. * {{ quote-text | en | date=April 26 1992 | chapter= 吴语: List of Jeeves and Wooster episodes | title=w:Jeeves and Wooster | section=Series 3, Episode 5
|passage=_吴语: Gussie Fink-Nottle :_ But it's absolute balderdash, Bertie. I
mean, listen to this: "Sure and begorrah, I don't know what's after being the
matter with you, Michael." I mean, what on earth is this "what's after being"
stuff mean?<br>_吴语: Bertie Wooster :_ My dear old Gussie, that is how people
think IRISH people talk.}}
1. Pertaining to the Irish language .
2. [en] nonsensical, daft or complex.
3. * [en]
**** Derived terms
{{col3|en|title=Terms derived from _Irish_ (adjective)|Irish harp |Irish
bouzouki|Irish Blue|Irish Blue Terrier|Irish diamond|Irish linen|Irish soda
bread|Irish up|Irish water spaniel |Irish coffee|Irish mile |Irish cream|Irish
question |Irish goodbye |Irish hospitality|Irish blight|Irish bacon |Irishly
|Irish joke |Irishtown |Irish twin |Irish wolfhound|Irish exit |Northern Irish
|weep Irish|Irish Hobby|Irish horse }}
**** Translations
[pertaining to or originating from Ireland or the Irish people]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Asturian: [ast]
- Azerbaijani: [az]
- Basque: [eu]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be] [Taraškievica]
- Bengali: [bn]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Burmese: [my]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et]
- Faroese: [fo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de] , [de] [rare]
- Hawaiian: [haw]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Irish: [ga] , [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Kazakh: [kk]
- Khmer: [km]
- Korean: [ko]
- Kyrgyz: [ky]
- Lao: [lo]
- Latvian: [lv] , [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt] , [lt]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Malay: [ms]
- Maltese: [mt]
- Marathi: [mr]
- Mongolian:
- Norwegian:
- Persian: [fa]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru]
- Scots: [sco]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Tajik: [tg] , [tg]
- Tatar: [tt]
- Thai: [th] , [th]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Turkmen: [tk]
- Ukrainian: [uk]
- Urdu: [ur] , [ur]
- Uyghur: [ug]
- Uzbek: [uz] , [uz]
- Vietnamese: [vi]
- Welsh: [cy]
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[pertaining to the language]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Asturian: [ast]
- Breton: [br]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Faroese: [fo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] [+ genitive] , [fi] , [fi] [+ genitive]
- French: [fr] , [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de]
- Hawaiian: [haw]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Latvian: [lv] , [lv]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Marathi: [mr]
- Norwegian:
- Persian: [fa]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru]
- Scots: [sco]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Thai: [th]
- Urdu: [ur] , [ur]
- Welsh: [cy]
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[checktrans-top]
- Breton: [br]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Persian: [fa]
- Romanian: [ro]
[trans-bottom]
*** See also
- [en]
- [en]
- [ga]
- [langlist]
*** Further reading
- Irish–English Dictionary (see https://web.archive.org/web/20040411020653/http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/definition/Irish-english/) : from Webster’s Dictionary (see https://web.archive.org/web/20131029200902/http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/) — the Rosetta Edition.
- [ref=1]
- [gle]
*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en]
** Cebuano
*** Etymology 1
From [ceb], from [ceb], from [ceb], from [ceb], from [ceb] (modern [ga]), from
[ceb], from [ceb], from [ine-pro].
**** Proper noun
[ceb-proper noun]
1. the Goidelic language indigenous to Ireland , also known as Irish Gaelic
**** Noun
[ceb]
1. an Irishman or Irishwoman
**** Adjective
[ceb]
1. pertaining to or originating from Ireland or the [ceb] people
2. pertaining to the Irish language
*** Etymology 2
From [ceb]. Also a corruption of [ceb].
**** Proper noun
[ceb]
1. [ceb]
[ceb]
** Middle English
*** Alternative forms
- [enm]
*** Etymology
From [enm], from [enm], from [enm] (modern [ga]).
*** Pronunciation
- [enm]
*** Noun
[-]
1. [en]
**** Descendants
- [en]
- [yol]
**** References
- [entry=Īrish]