intamail
Appearance
Old Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]intamail f (genitive intamlae)
- verbal noun of in·samlathar
- imitation
- 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. 5b20
- similitude, comparison
- likeness, semblance, like
- simulation, pretence
Inflection
[edit]Feminine ī-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | intamailL | intamailL | intamlaiH |
Vocative | intamailL | intamailL | intamlaiH |
Accusative | intamailN | intamailL | intamlaiH |
Genitive | intamlaeH | intamlaeL | intamlaeN |
Dative | intamailL | intamlaib | intamlaib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Irish: iontamhail
Mutation
[edit]radical | lenition | nasalization |
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intamail (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments) |
unchanged | n-intamail |
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), “intamail”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language