imbe

== English == === Etymology === (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) === Noun === imbe (plural imbes) The originally African tree Garcinia livingstonei. 2008, National Research Council, Policy and Global Affairs, Development, Security, and Cooperation, Lost Crops of Africa: Volume III: Fruits, National Academies Press (→ISBN), page 291: Africa's best-known mangosteen relative is the imbe, a tree whose soft and colorful fruits brighten up markets [...]. Imbes come from a shrub or small tree with a dense spreading or conical crown topping a short, often twisted trunk [...] ==== Translations ==== === See also === imbé (“the South American liana Philodendron imbe”) === Anagrams === mebi- == Old English == === Etymology === From Proto-West Germanic *imbī, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *a(m)pi- (“stinging insect, bee”). Cognate with Middle Dutch imme (Dutch imme) and Old High German imbi (German Imme). The proposed Indo-European root would also be the source of Ancient Greek ἐμπίς (empís), Latin apis. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈim.be/ === Noun === imbe n swarm of bees ==== Usage notes ==== Only attested in late form ymbe. == Old Irish == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈimʲ.bʲe/ === Noun === imbe n (genitive imbi) verbal noun of im·fen fence ==== Inflection ==== === Mutation === === Further reading === Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “imbe”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language