imbed

English

Verb

1. Alternative spelling of embed

Anagrams

• bedim

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Old Irish

Alternative forms

• imbad

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”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈimʲbʲeð/

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. 62^b20

     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 (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	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