imeartas

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish imertas (“playing, an exploit, a contrivance; trickery”), from Old Irish imbert, verbal noun of imm·beir. By surface analysis, imir (“to play”) +‎ -tas.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɪmʲəɾˠt̪ˠəsˠ]

Noun

imeartas m (genitive singular imeartais, nominative plural imeartais)

  1. play, playfulness
  2. machination, trickery

Declension

Declension of imeartas (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative imeartas imeartais
vocative a imeartais a imeartasa
genitive imeartais imeartas
dative imeartas imeartais
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an t-imeartas na himeartais
genitive an imeartais na n-imeartas
dative leis an imeartas
don imeartas 		leis na himeartais

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of imeartas
radical eclipsis with h-prothesis with t-prothesis
imeartas n-imeartas himeartas not applicable

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

References

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