immbeir

Old Irish

Etymology

From imm- +‎ beirid.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [imʲˈbʲerʲ]

Verb

imm·beir (verbal noun imbert)

1. to carry around
2. to play
3. to handle, to use

Inflection

Complex, class B I present, t preterite, a subjunctive

		1st sg	2nd sg	3rd sg	1st pl	2nd pl	3rd pl	passive sg	passive pl
present indicative	deut.		im·bir	im·beir			imma·mberat (nasalized relative)	im·ber, im·berar; imma·berr (relative)
	prot.
imperfect indicative	deut.
	prot.
preterite	deut.
	prot.			·imbert
perfect	deut.
	prot.
future	deut.
	prot.
conditional	deut.
	prot.
present subjunctive	deut.			imma·bera (with infixed pronoun a-)
	prot.
past subjunctive	deut.
	prot.
imperative
verbal noun		imbert
past participle
verbal of necessity

Descendants

• Middle Irish: imrid
  • Irish: imir
  • Scottish Gaelic: iomair

Mutation

Mutation of immbeir

radical	lenition	nasalization
imm·beir (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	unchanged	n-imm·beir

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

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “immbeir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language