imeartas

== Irish == === Alternative forms === imreas === Etymology === From Middle Irish imertas (“playing, an exploit, a contrivance; trickery”), from Old Irish imbert, verbal noun of imm·beir. By surface analysis, imir (“to play”) +‎ -tas. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [ˈɪmʲəɾˠt̪ˠəsˠ] === Noun === imeartas m (genitive singular imeartais, nominative plural imeartais) play, playfulness machination, trickery ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== imeartas focal (“pun”) teoiric imeartais (“game theory”) === Mutation === === References === Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “imeartas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “immertas”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language