imram

Old Irish

Etymology

From imm- +‎ *rám.

Noun

imram m (genitive imrama)

1. verbal noun of imm·rá: rowing
   • 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. 126^a5

     ...airis trummu foraib-som imram isind féith quam techt la [f]r(e)ithchoir gaithe.

     ...for rowing in a calm is heavier upon them than going with an unfavorable wind.

2. sea voyage

   Immram Brain

   The Voyage of Bran

Inflection

Masculine u-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	imram	imramL	imramae
Vocative	imram	imramL	imramu
Accusative	imramN	imramL	imramu
Genitive	imramoH, imramaH	imramo, imrama	imramaeN
Dative	imramL	imramaib	imramaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Middle Irish: imrum
  • Irish: iomramh
  • Scottish Gaelic: iomramh

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
imram	unchanged	n-imram
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), “imram”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language