imb
Maltese edit
Alternative forms edit
- imb’ (superseded)
Etymology edit
Univerbation of ma’ + b’, fossilised in fixed impressions.
Pronunciation edit
Preposition edit
imb
- Alternative form of b’ used in a few expressions.
- wiċċ imb wiċċ ― face to face
- ras imb ras ― head to head
- mpar ― of the same age
- mbilli ― inasmuch as
Old Irish edit
Alternative forms edit
- imm (both etymologies)
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Proto-Celtic *amban (compare Welsh ymenyn), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃engʷen- (compare Latin unguen (“grease”), Old High German ancho (“butter”)), from *h₃engʷ- (“anoint”).[1]
Noun edit
imb n or m (genitive imme, no plural)
Inflection edit
Neuter n-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | imbN | — | — |
Vocative | imbN | — | — |
Accusative | imbN | — | — |
Genitive | imme | — | — |
Dative | immimL | — | — |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Descendants edit
Etymology 2 edit
From Proto-Celtic *ambi (compare Welsh am), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂m̥bʰi (“round about, around”). Cognate with Latin ambi-, Sanskrit अभि (abhí, “towards, over, upon”), Old Persian 𐎠𐎲𐎡𐎹 (a-b-i-y /abiy/, “towards, against, upon”), Old High German umbi, Ancient Greek ἀμφί (amphí, “about, around”) and the first part of Old Armenian ամբ-ողջ (amb-ołǰ, “whole”).
Preposition edit
imb
- around
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 27b16
- Gaibid immib a n‑étach macc coím-sa, amal nondad maicc coím-a, .i. uiscera is hé in dechellt as·beir.
- Put on (literally, put around you) this raiment of servants, as you all are servants, i.e. viscera is the garment that he mentions.
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 27b16
Inflection edit
Forms with a definite article:
Forms with a possessive determiner:
Forms with a relative pronoun:
Descendants edit
Mutation edit
Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
imb | unchanged | n-imb |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References edit
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*amben-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 69
Further reading edit
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “imb, imm ‘butter’”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 imm, imb ‘around’”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2003) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, pages 273, 516–18