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ìm

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Scottish Gaelic

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [iːm]
  • Audio:(file)

Noun

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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

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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

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  • 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