Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗Pertaining to or originating from Ireland or the Irish people. · Pertaining to the Irish language.
The Gaelic language indigenous to Ireland, also known as Irish Gaelic. · The Irish people. · A surname originating as an ethnonym. · A female given name of chiefly Philippine usage.
A board game of the tables family. · Temper; anger, passion. · Whiskey, or whisky, elaborated in Ireland.
From Middle English Irish (12th c.), from Old English *Īrisċ, from Old English Īras (“Irishmen”), from Old Norse Írar, from Old Irish Ériu (modern Irish Éire (“Ireland”)), further origin heavily debated but probably from Proto-Celtic *Φīweriyū (“fat land, fertile”), from Proto-Indo-European *péyh₂wr̥ (“fat, swelling”), from *peyh₂- (“to swell; to be fat”), akin to Ancient Greek πῑ́ειρα (pī́eira, “fertile land”), Sanskrit पीव॑री (pī́varī, “fat”).
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionIrishenm
- Inherited-form mention*Īrisċang
- Derivation mentionĪrasang
- Derivation mentionÍrarnon
- Derivation mentionÉriusga
- Cognate mentionÉirega
- Derivation mention*Φīweriyūcel-pro · fat land, fertile
- Derivation mention*péyh₂wr̥ine-pro · fat, swelling
- Cognate mentionπῑ́ειραgrc
- Cognate mentionपीव॑रीsa
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Raw extraction fields are retained for auditing. Their order does not establish ancestry.
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