ìm

See also: Appendix:Variations of "im"

Khiamniungan Naga

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /im³¹/

Verb

ìm

  1. (Patsho) To hold one's body closely or to hold something closely to one's body.

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish imb, imm, from Proto-Celtic *amban, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃éngʷn̥.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [iːm]
  • Audio:(file)

Noun

ìm m (genitive singular ìme)

  1. butter
    fear an ìme mhòir 's e a's binne glòir
    the rich man's voice prevails
    (literally, “the man of much butter, his voice is the sweetest”)

Mutation

Mutation of ì
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
ì n-ì h-ì t-ì

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

References

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “ìm”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “imb, imm”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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