Irish

名词 n. 形容词 adj. 专有名词
中文释义
发音 ī'rĭsh

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A board game of the tables family. obsolete,uncountable
  2. Temper; anger, passion. US,uncountable
    — But her Irish was up too high to do any thing with her, and so I quit trying.
  3. Whiskey, or whisky, elaborated in Ireland. countable,uncountable
    — 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.
形容词 adj.
  1. Pertaining to or originating from Ireland or the Irish people.
    — Sheep are typical in the Irish landscape.
  2. Pertaining to the Irish language.
专有名词
  1. The Gaelic language indigenous to Ireland, also known as Irish Gaelic. uncountable
    — Irish is the first official and national language of Ireland.
  2. The Irish people.
    — Many Irish are actually darkhaired as a result of the many invaders and migrants over the centuries.
  3. A surname originating as an ethnonym.
  4. A female given name of chiefly Philippine usage.

词形变化

Irish plural Irishes plural more Irish comparative most Irish superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
full Irish full Irish breakfast Irish bacon Irish blight Irish Blue Irish Blue Terrier Irish bouzouki Irish coffee Irish cream Irish diamond Irish exit Irish goodbye Irish harp Irish hint Irish Hobby Irish horse Irish hospitality Irish joke Irish linen Irishly Irish mile Irish nacho Irish pub Irish question Irish soda bread Irishtown Irish twin Irish up Irish water spaniel Irish wolfhound Northern Irish weep Irish

词源

词源 1
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 πίειρα (píeira, “fertile land”), Sanskrit पीवरी (pīvarī, “fat”).
词源 2
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 πίειρα (píeira, “fertile land”), Sanskrit पीवरी (pīvarī, “fat”).
词源 3
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 πίειρα (píeira, “fertile land”), Sanskrit पीवरी (pīvarī, “fat”).
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