imbliu

Old Irish

Alternative forms

imliu

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *ambelyū, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃nóbʰōl.

Noun

imbliu f

navel

Declension

Feminine n-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	imbliu	imblinn^L	imblinn
vocative	imbliu	imblinn^L	imblenna^H
accusative	imblinn^N	imblinn^L	imblenna^H
genitive	imblenn	imblenn^L	imblenn^N
dative	imblinn^L, imbliu^L	imblennaib	imblennaib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

^H = triggers aspiration
^L = triggers lenition
^N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

Irish: imleann
⇒ Middle Irish: *imlec
- Scottish Gaelic: imleag
  - ⇒ Scottish Gaelic: ilmeag (by metathesis)
- Manx: imleig
- ⇒ Middle Irish: imlecán
  - Irish: imleacán

Mutation

Mutation of *imbliu*
radical	lenition	nasalization
imbliu (pronounced with /h/ in h-prothesis environments)	imbliu	n-imbliu

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), “imbliu”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language