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Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Irish immertas (“playing, an exploit, a contrivance; trickery”), from imbert, verbal noun of imm·beir. By surface analysis, imirt (“play, playing”) + -as.
Pronunciation
Noun
imeartas m (genitive singular imeartais, nominative plural imeartais)
- play, playfulness
- machination, trickery
Declension
Derived terms
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical |
Eclipsis |
with h-prothesis |
with t-prothesis
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| imeartas
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n-imeartas
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himeartas
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not applicable
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| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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References
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “imeartas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “immertas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language