insamlathar
Old Irish
editEtymology
editDenominative verb from insamlad (“likeness”).
Pronunciation
editVerb
editin·samlathar (prototonic ·insamladar, verbal noun intamail)
- to imitate, emulate
- 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. 9a14
- Bed adthramli .i. gaibid comarbus for n-athar et intamlid a béssu.
- Be pl fatherlike, i.e. take your father’s heritage and imitate his manners
- 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
- to compare, liken
- to simulate
Conjugation
editComplex, class A I present, s preterite, f future, a subjunctive, deponent
1st sg. | 2nd sg. | 3rd sg. | 1st pl. | 2nd pl. | 3rd pl. | Passive sg. | Passive pl. | ||
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Present indicative | Deut. | in·samlathar | in·samlatar | ||||||
Prot. | ·insamladar | ·intṡamlammar | ·intamlid, ·intṡamlid | ||||||
Imperfect indicative | Deut. | ||||||||
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Preterite | Deut. | ||||||||
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Perfect | Deut. | inru·samlasatar | |||||||
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Future | Deut. | in·samlibid | |||||||
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Conditional | Deut. | ||||||||
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Present subjunctive | Deut. | in·samlar | in·samailter | ||||||
Prot. | ·intamlae | ·intamlammar | |||||||
Past subjunctive | Deut. | ||||||||
Prot. | ·intṡamlithe | ·intamlitis | |||||||
Imperative | intamaltae | intamlid, intṡamlid | |||||||
Verbal noun | intamail | ||||||||
Past participle | |||||||||
Verbal of necessity | intamaltai |
Mutation
editThe lenition of this form is apparently unattested but would probably have been int·ṡamlathar.