imresan

Old Irish

Alternative forms

  • imbressan, imbresan (Würzburg variants)

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *ambiwritsonom, a prefixed derivation of *sonom. *Sonom is in turn derived from the root Proto-Indo-European *senh₂‐ (“to reach, attain”).[1] Effectively contains the prefixes imm- +‎ frith-.

Gordon also connects imresan to Irish ar son (“instead of, in place of”), which has been connected to unrelated words by previous authors.[1]

Noun

imresan n (genitive imresin, nominative plural imbresna)

  1. verbal noun of imm·fresna: contention, strife, controversy

Inflection

Neuter o-stem
singular dual plural
nominative imresanN imresanN imresanL, imresna, imbresna
vocative imresanN imresanN imresanL, imresna, imbresna
accusative imresanN imresanN imresanL, imresna, imbresna
genitive imresainL, imresinL imresan imresanN
dative imresunL imresnaib imresnaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

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

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

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Gordon, Randall Clark (2012) Derivational Morphology of the Early Irish Verbal Noun, Los Angeles: University of California, page 480

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