imram
Appearance
Old Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]imram m (genitive imrama)
- verbal noun of imm·rá: rowing
- 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. 126a5
- ...airis trummu foraib-som imram isind féith quam techt la [f]r(e)ithchoir gaithe.
- ...for rowing in a calm is heavier upon them than going with an unfavorable wind.
- 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. 126a5
- sea voyage
- Immram Brain
Inflection
[edit]Masculine u-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | imram | imramL | imramae |
Vocative | imram | imramL | imramu |
Accusative | imramN | imramL | imramu |
Genitive | imramoH, imramaH | imramo, imrama | imramaeN |
Dative | imramL | imramaib | imramaib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Descendants
[edit]Mutation
[edit]radical | lenition | nasalization |
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imram (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments) |
unchanged | n-imram |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “imram”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language