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Old Irish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Proto-Celtic *marwos (“dead”), from Proto-Indo-European *mr̥wós, ultimately from the root *mer- (“to die”).
Adjective
marb
- dead
- mortified, insensible, spiritually dead
- pertaining to the dead
- inanimate
- stagnant (water)
- (nominalized, masculine) corpse, dead person
Inflection
| o/ā-stem
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| Singular
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Masculine
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Feminine
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Neuter
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| Nominative
|
marb
|
marb
|
marb
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| Vocative
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mairb*
marb**
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| Accusative
|
marb
|
mairb
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| Genitive
|
mairb
|
mairbe
|
mairb
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| Dative
|
marb
|
mairb
|
marb
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| Plural
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Masculine
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Feminine/neuter
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| Nominative
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mairb
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marba
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| Vocative
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marbu
marba†
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| Accusative
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marbu
marba†
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| Genitive
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marb
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| Dative
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marbaib
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| Notes
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*modifying a noun whose vocative is different from its nominative
**modifying a noun whose vocative is identical to its nominative
† not when substantivized
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Quotations
- 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. 13b12
Masu glé lib trá in precept ro·pridchus-sa .i. as·réracht Críst hó marbaib, cid dia léicid cundubairt for drécht úaib de resurrectione hominum?- If, then, what I have preached is clear to you, namely that Christ has risen from the dead, why do you pl leave doubt on a portion of you concerning the resurrection of humans?
- (literally, “…the preaching that I have preached…”)
Descendants
Further reading
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
·marb
- inflection of marbaid:
- third-person singular preterite conjunct
- first-person singular present subjunctive conjunct
Mutation
Mutation of marb
| radical |
lenition |
nasalization
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marb
also mmarb after a proclitic
ending in a vowel
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marb
pronounced with /β̃(ʲ)-/
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unchanged
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Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.