amach

See also: a-mach

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish i mmach (literally “into the plain”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈmˠax/

Adverb

amach

1. (motion) out, outward
2. back, away (from)
3. forth, abroad
4. facing outwards, exposed
5. out, aloud
6. (time) on
   1. forward
   2. late
7. completely
8. just out (of)
9. outbound, (of mail) outgoing

Derived terms

• amach is amach
• amach is isteach
• amach le
• amach ó
• amachaigí!
• bain amach
• bealach amach
• bris amach
• buail amach
• caith amach
• cuir amach
• déan amach
• éirigh amach
• fág amach
• leag amach
• lig amach
• luigh amach
• ó mo chroí amach
• os mo chomhair amach
• scaoil amach
• seas amach
• tabhair amach
• tar amach
• tarraing amach
• téigh amach ar
• tit amach
• uaidh seo amach

See also Category:Irish phrasal verbs formed with "amach"

See also

Irish adverbs of direction and position

point of reference	motion toward	stationary position at	stationary position on the indicated side	motion from
above, up	suas	thuas	lastuas	anuas
below, down	síos	thíos	laistíos	aníos
east	soir	thoir	lastoir	anoir
west/back	siar	thiar	laistiar	aniar
north	ó thuaidh	thuaidh	lastuaidh	aduaidh
south	ó dheas	theas	laisteas	aneas
northeast	soir ó thuaidh	thoir thuaidh	—	anoir aduaidh
northwest	siar ó thuaidh	thiar thuaidh	—	aniar aduaidh
southeast	soir ó dheas	thoir theas	—	anoir aneas
southwest	siar ó dheas	thiar theas	—	aniar aneas
over there	sall	thall	lastall	anall
over here	—	—	—	anonn
inside	isteach	istigh	laistigh	—
outside	amach	amuigh	lasmuigh	—

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “amach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “immach, ammach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Finck, F. N. (1899), Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 97
• Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931), Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 33

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Alternative forms

• ammache

Etymology

Borrowed from Irish abhac (“dwarf”), from Middle Irish abacc.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈamək/

Noun

amach

1. dwarf

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 22