imeartas
Irish edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Old Irish immertas (“playing, an exploit, a contrivance; trickery”), from imbert, verbal noun of imm·beir. By surface analysis, imirt (“play, playing”) + -as.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
imeartas m (genitive singular imeartais, nominative plural imeartais)
Declension edit
Declension of imeartas
Bare forms:
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Forms with the definite article:
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Derived terms edit
- imeartas focal (“pun”)
- teoiric imeartais (“game theory”)
Mutation edit
Irish mutation | |||
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Radical | Eclipsis | with h-prothesis | with t-prothesis |
imeartas | n-imeartas | himeartas | not applicable |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References edit
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “imeartas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “immertas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language