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Old Irish
Etymology
Denominative verb from insamlad (“likeness”).
Pronunciation
Verb
in·samlathar (prototonic ·insamladar, verbal noun intamail)
- to imitate, emulate
- 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. 5b20
trisin intamail sin .i. combad ǽt leu buid domsa i n-iriss et duús in intamlitis- through that imitation, i.e. so that there may be jealousy with them for me to be in faith and if by chance they might imitate
- 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. 9a14
Bed adthramli .i. gaibid comarbus for n-athar et intamlid a béssu.- Be pl fatherlike, i.e. take your father’s heritage and imitate his manners
- to compare, liken
- to simulate
Conjugation
Complex, class A I present, s preterite, f future, a subjunctive, deponent
Mutation
The lenition of this form is apparently unattested but would probably have been int·ṡamlathar.