intamail
Old Irish
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editintamail f (genitive intamlae)
- verbal noun of in·samlathar
- imitation
- 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. 5b20
- trisin intamail sin .i. combad ǽt leu buid domsa i n-iriss et duús in intamlitis
- through that imitation, i.e. so that there may be jealousy with them for me to be in faith and if by chance they might imitate [me]
- 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. 5b20
- similitude, comparison
- likeness, semblance, like
- simulation, pretence
Inflection
editFeminine ī-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | intamailL | intamailL | intamlaiH |
Vocative | intamailL | intamailL | intamlaiH |
Accusative | intamailN | intamailL | intamlaiH |
Genitive | intamlaeH | intamlaeL | intamlaeN |
Dative | intamailL | intamlaib | intamlaib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Derived terms
editDescendants
edit- Irish: iontamhail
Mutation
editOld Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
intamail (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments) |
unchanged | n-intamail |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
edit- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “intamail”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language