Wiktionary FromMiddle English Irish Old English *Īrisċ Old English Īras ( “ Irishmen ” ) , fromOld Norse Írar Old Irish Ériu Irish Éire ( “ Ireland ” ) ), further origin heavily debated but probably fromProto-Celtic *Φīweriyū ( “ fat land, fertile ” ) , fromProto-Indo-European *péyh₂wr̥ ( “ fat, swelling ” ) , from*peyh₂- ( “ to swell; to be fat ” ) , akin toAncient Greek πίειρα ( píeira ,“ fertile land ” ) ,Sanskrit पीवरी ( pīvarī ,“ fat ” ) .
Irish
( uncountable ) Gaelic languageindigenous toIreland , also known asIrish Gaelic .Irish is the first official and national language of Ireland.
( as plural ) ManyIrish are actually darkhaired as a result of the many invaders and migrants over the centuries.
Asurname originating as an ethnonym .A femalegiven name of chieflyPhilippine usage .the language
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the people
Afrikaans:Iere pl Arabic:إِيرْلَنْدِيّ m ( ʔirlandiyy ) ,إِيرْلَنْدِيَّة f ( ʔīrlandiyya ) Belarusian:ірла́ндзец m ( irlándzjec ) ,ірла́ндка f ( irlándka ) ,ірля́ндзец f ( irljándzjec ) ,ірля́ндка f ( irljándka ) ( Taraškievica ) Bulgarian:ирла́ндец m ( irlándec ) ,ирла́ндка f ( irlándka ) Catalan:irlandesos (ca) m pl Chinese:Mandarin:愛爾蘭人 / 爱尔兰人 (zh) ( Ài'ěrlánrén ) Chinook Jargon:ayrish Czech:Ir (cs) m Irka (cs) f Faroese:íri m Finnish:irlantilaiset (fi) pl French:Irlandais (fr) m Irlandaise (fr) f Middle French:Irlandois m Yrlandois m Irlandoise f Yrlandoise f Galician:irlandeses m pl Georgian:ირლანდიელები ( irlandielebi ) ,ირლანდიელი ( irlandieli ) German:Ire (de) m Irin (de) f Hawaiian:ʻIlelani Hebrew:אירים m pl ( Írim ) Icelandic:Írlendingar pl Irish:Éireannach (ga) m Gael m Italian:irlandese (it) Japanese:アイルランド人 (ja) ( アイルランドじん, Airurandojin ) Latvian:īrs m īriete f Macedonian:Ирци pl ( Irci ) ( collectively ) ,Ирец m ( Irec ) ,Ирка f ( Irka ) Marathi:आयरिश ( āyriś ) Navajo:Dághaałchííʼ dineʼé Old Norse:írar m pl Persian:ایرلندی (fa) ( irlandi ) Polish:Irlandczyk (pl) m pers Irlandka (pl) f Portuguese:irlandeses (pt) pl Romanian:irlandez (ro) Russian:ирла́ндцы (ru) m pl ( irlándcy ) ( collectively ) ,ирла́ндец (ru) m ( irlándec ) ,ирла́ндка (ru) f ( irlándka ) Scots:Erse Scottish Gaelic:na h-Èireannaich m pl Serbo-Croatian:Cyrillic:И́рац m И̏ркиња f Latin:Írac (sh) m Ȉrkinja f Slovak:Ír m Írka f Slovene:Irec (sl) m Spanish:irlandeses (es) m pl Tagalog:Irlandes (tl) Ukrainian:ірла́ндець m ( irlándecʹ ) ,ірла́ндка f ( irlándka ) Urdu:آئرستانی ( āiristānī ) ,آئرش ( āiriś ) Vietnamese:người Ai-len Welsh:Gwyddelod (cy) pl ( literary ) Gwyddyl pl
Irish (countable anduncountable plural Irish or Irishes
( uncountable , obsolete ) board game of thetables family.( uncountable , US ) Temper ; anger,passion .1834 David Crockett ,A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett , Nebraska, published1987 , page65 :But herIrish was up too high to do any thing with her, and so I quit trying.
1997 Andrew M. Greeley ,Irish Lace , page296 :The Priest is as fierce a fighter as I am when he gets hisIrish up.
( countable , uncountable ) Whiskey , orwhisky , elaborated in Ireland.1889 Jerome K. Jerome ,Three Men in a Boat [ … ] [1] 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 ofIrish worth drinking.
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Irish (comparative moreIrish ,superlative mostIrish )
Pertaining to or originating fromIreland or theIrish people.Sheep are typical in theIrish landscape.
1992 April 26, “Hot Off the Press ”, inJeeves and Wooster A. Fink-Nottle :balderdash , Bertie. I mean, listen to this: "Sure andbegorrah , I don't know what's after being the matter with you, Michael." I mean, whaton earth is this "what's after being" stuff mean?B.W. Wooster :Irish people talk. Pertaining to the Irishlanguage . (verify (+ ) this sense?) ( derogatory ) 1995 The City in Slang: New York Life and Popular Speech :The slur continued withIrish confetti, a popular term for paving stones or Belgian bricks that were laid in New York streets beginning about 1832.
Terms derived fromIrish (adjective)
pertaining to or originating from Ireland or the Irish people
Afrikaans:Iers (af) Albanian:irlandez (sq) Arabic:إِيرْلَنْدِيّ ( ʔīrlandiyy ) Armenian:իռլանդական (hy) ( iṙlandakan ) Asturian:irlandés (ast) Azerbaijani:irland Basque:irlandar Belarusian:ірла́ндскі ( irlándski ) ,ірля́ндзкі ( irljándzki ) ( Taraškievica ) Bengali:আইরিশ (bn) ( airiś ) Bulgarian:ирла́ндски ( irlándski ) Burmese:အိုင်ယာလန် ( uing-yalan ) Catalan:irlandès (ca) Valencian:irlandés (ca) Chinese:Mandarin:愛爾蘭的 / 爱尔兰的 (zh) ( Ài'ěrlán de ) Czech:irský (cs) m Danish:irsk (da) Dutch:Iers (nl) Esperanto:irlanda Estonian:iiri (et) Faroese:írskur Finnish:irlantilainen (fi) ,irkku- (fi) French:irlandais (fr) Galician:irlandés (gl) Georgian:ირლანდიური (ka) ( irlandiuri ) German:irisch (de) ,irländisch (de) ( rare ) Hawaiian:ʻIlelani Hebrew:אִירִי ( iri ) Hindi:आयरिश (hi) ( āyriś ) Hungarian:ír (hu) Icelandic:írskur Indonesian:Irlandia (id) Irish:Éireannach (ga) ,Gaelach Italian:irlandese (it) Japanese:アイルランドの (ja) ( アイルランドの, Airurando no ) Kazakh:ирланд ( irland ) Khmer:អៀរឡង់ ( ʼiəlɑng ) Korean:아일랜드의 (ko) ( aillaendeuui ) Kyrgyz:ирланд ( irland ) Lao:ອຽກລັງ ( ʼīak lang ) Latvian:īru īrisks Lithuanian:airiškas (lt) ,airių (lt) Macedonian:ирски m ( irski ) Malay:Ireland (ms) Maltese:Irlandiż Marathi:आयरिश ( āyriś ) Mongolian:Cyrillic:ирланд ( irland ) Mongolian script:ᠢᠷᠯᠠᠨᠳ᠋ ( irland ) Norwegian:Bokmål:irsk (no) Nynorsk:irsk (nn) Persian:ایرلندی (fa) ( irlandi ) Polish:irlandzki (pl) Portuguese:irlandês (pt) Romanian:irlandez (ro) Russian:ирла́ндский (ru) ( irlándskij ) Scots:Erse Scottish Gaelic:Èireannach Serbo-Croatian:Cyrillic:и̑рскӣ Latin:ȋrskī (sh) Slovak:irský (sk) Slovene:írski (sl) Spanish:irlandés (es) Swedish:irländsk (sv) Tagalog:Irlandes (tl) Tajik:ирландӣ (tg) ( irlandi ) ,ирландиягӣ ( irlandiyagi ) Tatar:ирланд ( irland ) Thai:ไอริช (th) ,ไอร์แลนด์ (th) ( ai-lɛɛn ) Turkish:İrlanda (tr) Turkmen:irland Ukrainian:ірла́ндський ( irlándsʹkyj ) Urdu:آئرستانی ( āiristānī ) ,آئرش ( āiriś ) Uyghur:ئرېلاندىيە ( rëlandiye ) Uzbek:irland (uz) ,irlandiyalik Vietnamese:Ái Nhĩ Lan (vi) Welsh:Gwyddelig
pertaining to the language
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FromEnglish Irish Middle English Irisce Old English Īras ( “ Irishmen ” ) , fromOld Norse Írar Old Irish Ériu Éire ( “ Ireland ” ) ), fromProto-Celtic *Īwerjū ( “ fat land, fertile ” ) , fromProto-Indo-European *pi-wer- ( “ fertile ” ) , from*peyH- ( literally“ fat ” ) .
Irish
theGoidelic languageindigenous toIreland , also known as IrishGaelic Irish
anIrishman orIrishwoman Irish
pertaining to or originating fromIreland or theIrish pertaining to the Irishlanguage FromEnglish Irish Iris
Irish
a femalegiven name from English FromOld English Īras ( “ Irishmen ” ) , fromOld Norse Írar Old Irish Ériu Irish Éire ( “ Ireland ” ) ).
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