imbed

== English == === Verb === imbed (third-person singular simple present imbeds, present participle imbedding, simple past and past participle imbedded) Alternative spelling of embed. ==== Derived terms ==== === Anagrams === bedim == Old Irish == === Alternative forms === imbad === Etymology === Uncertain. May be cognate with Old Welsh immet, but both the reading and the meaning of that term are uncertain. If the Proto-Celtic term was *ɸembetom, then it might be cognate with Latin pinguis (“fat”) and/or Hittite 𒉺𒀭𒆪𒍑 (pa-an-ku-uš /⁠pankuš⁠/, “all, entire”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈimʲ.bʲəð/ (Blasse) [ˈimʲ.bʲeð] (Griffith) [ˈimʲ.bʲəð] === Noun === imbed n (genitive imbid) a large quantity, a large number, abundance, excess; especially an abundance of wealth, riches, food c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 62b20 (law, in the dual number) the two parties to a suit, contract, etc. amount, number ==== Inflection ==== ==== Descendants ==== Irish: iomad Scottish Gaelic: iomadh Manx: ymmod === Mutation === === References === === Further reading === Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “imbed, imbad”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language