ìm

See also: Appendix:Variations of "im"

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish imb, imm, from Proto-Celtic *amban, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃éngʷn̥.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [iːm]

• Audio:

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Noun

ìm m (genitive singular ìme)

1. butter

   fear an ìme mhòir 's e a's binne glòir

   the rich man's voice prevails

   (literally, “the man of much butter, his voice is the sweetest”)

Mutation

Mutation of ì

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
ì	n-ì	h-ì	t-ì

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

• 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