imb
Maltese
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]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]Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “imb, imm ‘butter’”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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 this raiment of servants, as you all are servants, i.e. viscera is the garment that he mentions.
- (literally, “Put around you”)
- 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. 23b10
- Hó goistiu .i. do·bert goiste imma brágait fadesin ɔid·marb, húare nád ndigni Abisolón a chomairli.
- By a noose, i.e. he put a noose around his own neck so that it killed him, because Absalom did not follow his advice.
- (literally, “do his advice”)
- 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]Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 imm, imb ‘around’”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, pages 273, 516–18; reprinted 2017
Mutation
[edit]radical | lenition | nasalization |
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imb (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments) |
unchanged | n-imb |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
References
[edit]- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*amben-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 69
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