ìm
Appearance
See also: Appendix:Variations of "im"
Scottish Gaelic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish imb, imm, from Proto-Celtic *amban, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃éngʷn̥.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]ìm m (genitive singular ìme)
- 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
[edit]radical | eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
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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
[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
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