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See also: Appendix:Variations of "im"
Scottish Gaelic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish imb, imm, from Proto-Celtic *emban-, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃engʷen-.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ìm m (genitive singular ìme)
- butter
- fear an ìme mhòir 's e a's binne glòir
- (literally, the man of much butter, his voice is the sweetest) the rich man's voice prevails
- fear an ìme mhòir 's e a's binne glòir
Mutation
[edit]Scottish Gaelic mutation | |||
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Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
ìm | n-ìm | h-ìm | t-ìm |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
[edit]- Edward Dwelly (1911) “ìm”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary][1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “imb, imm”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Categories:
- Scottish Gaelic terms inherited from Old Irish
- Scottish Gaelic terms derived from Old Irish
- Scottish Gaelic terms inherited from Proto-Celtic
- Scottish Gaelic terms derived from Proto-Celtic
- Scottish Gaelic terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Scottish Gaelic terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Scottish Gaelic terms with IPA pronunciation
- Scottish Gaelic lemmas
- Scottish Gaelic nouns
- Scottish Gaelic masculine nouns