imeartas

Irish

Alternative forms

• imreas

Etymology

From Middle Irish imertas (“playing, an exploit, a contrivance; trickery”), from Old Irish imbert, verbal noun of imm·beir. By surface analysis, imir (“to play”) +‎ -tas.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɪmʲəɾˠt̪ˠəsˠ]

Noun

imeartas m (genitive singular imeartais, nominative plural imeartais)

1. play, playfulness
2. machination, trickery

Declension

Declension of imeartas (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative imeartas imeartais vocative a imeartais a imeartasa genitive imeartais imeartas dative imeartas imeartais forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an t-imeartas na himeartais genitive an imeartais na n-imeartas dative leis an imeartas don imeartas leis na himeartais

Derived terms

• imeartas focal (“pun”)
• teoiric imeartais (“game theory”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of imeartas

radical	eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
imeartas	n-imeartas	himeartas	not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “imeartas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “immertas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language