imbed

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English

Verb

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  1. 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)

  1. 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
  2. (law, in the dual number) the two parties to a suit, contract, etc.
  3. amount, number

Inflection

Neuter o-stem
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:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

  • Irish: iomad
  • Scottish Gaelic: iomadh

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
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

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*imbeto-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 172