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Old Irish
- ǽm (Würzburg and Milan glosses)
- ám (St. Gall glosses and Tallaght monasterial diaries)
- éim
Pronunciation
Particle
ém
- indeed, for sure, truly
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 2c4
Cain ro·noíbad Abracham tri hiris? In tree ǽm didiu fa nacc?- Hasn’t Abraham been sanctified through faith? Through it then indeed or not?
Usage notes
Used to affirmatively reinforce a statement in which this particle is inserted.
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 éim, ém”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 ám”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Thurneysen, Rudolf (1940, reprinted 2017) D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin, transl., A Grammar of Old Irish, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, § 880, page 549
Vietnamese
Etymology
Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 掩 (SV: yểm). Compare ẻm, a dialectal synonym.
Pronunciation
Verb
ém
- to hide, to conceal, to keep quiet
Derived terms