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imb

imb

Old Irish

Alternative forms

  • (both etymologies): imm

Noun

imb n, m (genitive imme, no plural)

  1. butter
Inflection

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Descendants

Etymology 2

From Proto-Celtic *ambi (compare Welsh am), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂m̥bʰi (round about, around). Cognate with Latin ambi-, Sanskrit अभि (abhí, towards, over, upon), Old Persian 𐎠𐎲𐎡𐎹 (abiy, towards, against, upon), Old High German umbi, Ancient Greek ἀμφί (amphí, about, around) and the first part of Old Armenian ամբ-ողջ (amb-ołǰ, whole).

Preposition

imb

  1. around
Descendants
  • Irish: um

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
imb unchanged n-imb
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.