imbed

English

Verb

imbed (third-person singular simple present imbeds, present participle imbedding, simple past and past participle imbedded)

  1. Alternative spelling of embed

Anagrams

Old Irish

Alternative forms
  • imbad

Etymology

Uncertain. May be cognate with Old Welsh immet, but both the reading and the meaning of that term are uncertain. If the Proto-Celtic term was *ɸembetom, then it might be cognate with Latin pinguis (“fat”) and/or Hittite 𒉺𒀭𒆪𒍑 (pa-an-ku-uš /pankuš/, “all, entire”).[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈimʲbʲeð/

Noun

imbed n (genitive imbid)

  1. a large quantity, a large number, abundance, excess; especially an abundance of wealth, riches, food
    • c. 875, 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. 62b20
      a n-imbed són ind slóig do·lega na ní téte, fo chosmailius dílenn
      the abundance of the army which destroys whatever it comes to, like a deluge
  2. (law, in the dual number) the two parties to a suit, contract, etc.
  3. amount, number

Inflection
Neuter o-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative imbedN imbedN imbedL, imbeda
Vocative imbedN imbedN imbedL, imbeda
Accusative imbedN imbedN imbedL, imbeda
Genitive imbidL imbed imbedN
Dative imbedL imbedaib imbedaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

Mutation
Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
imbed unchanged n-imbed
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading
  • “imbed, imbad” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

References
  1. Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*imbeto-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 172
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.