mí-imbert

Old Irish

Etymology

From mí- +‎ imbert, verbal noun of imm·beir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmʲiːˌimʲbʲer͈t]

Noun

mí-imbert f

1. fraud
   • 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. 38^a13

     hó erchellad· ꝉ. hó mí-imbirt .i. hó thogaís .i. ním·thorgaíth mo ḟrescissiu

     by deprivation or by fraud i.e. by deceit i.e. my expectation has not deceived me

Declension

Feminine ā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	mí-imbertL	—	—
Vocative	mí-imbertL	—	—
Accusative	mí-imbirtN	—	—
Genitive	mí-imbirteH	—	—
Dative	mí-imbirtL	—	—
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
mí-imbert also mmí-imbert after a proclitic	mí-imbert pronounced with /β̃(ʲ)-/	unchanged
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), “mí-”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language