Irish

Meanings

Proper Noun

• The Gaelic language indigenous to Ireland, also known as Irish Gaelic.
• The Irish people.

Noun

• A board game of the tables family.
• Temper; anger, passion.
• Whiskey, or whisky, elaborated in Ireland.

Adjective

• Pertaining to or originating from Ireland or the Irish people.
• Pertaining to the Irish language.
• nonsensical, daft or complex.

Origin

• From Middle English Irish (12th c.), 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 *Īwerjū ("fat land, fertile"), from Proto-Indo-European *pi-wer- ("fertile"), from *peyH-, akin to Ancient Greek πίειρα ("fertile land"), Sanskrit पीवरी ("fat").