imbed
English
Verb
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- Alternative spelling of embed
Anagrams
Old Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
Uncertain. May be cognate with Old Welsh immet, but both the reading and the meaning of that term are uncertain. If the Proto-Celtic term was *ɸembetom, then it might be cognate with Latin pinguis (“fat”) and/or Hittite 𒉺𒀭𒆪𒍑 (pa-an-ku-uš /pankuš/, “all, entire”).[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
imbed n (genitive imbid)
- a large quantity, a large number, abundance, excess; especially an abundance of wealth, riches, food
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 62b20
- a n-imbed són ind slóig do·lega na ní téte, fo chosmailius dílenn
- the abundance of the army which destroys whatever it comes to, like a deluge
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 62b20
- (law, in the dual number) the two parties to a suit, contract, etc.
- amount, number
Inflection
Neuter o-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | imbedN | imbedN | imbedL, imbeda |
Vocative | imbedN | imbedN | imbedL, imbeda |
Accusative | imbedN | imbedN | imbedL, imbeda |
Genitive | imbidL | imbed | imbedN |
Dative | imbiudL, imbud | imbedaib | imbedaib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Descendants
Mutation
Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
imbed | unchanged | n-imbed |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “imbed, imbad”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
References
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*imbeto-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 172