imeartas

Irish

Alternative forms

• imreas

Etymology

From Old Irish immertas (“playing, an exploit, a contrivance; trickery”), from imbert, verbal noun of imm·beir. By surface analysis, imirt (“play, playing”) +‎ -as.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɪmʲəɾˠt̪ˠəsˠ]

Noun

imeartas m (genitive singular imeartais, nominative plural imeartais)

1. play, playfulness
2. machination, trickery

Declension

Declension of imeartas

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative imeartas imeartais Vocative a imeartais a imeartasa Genitive imeartais imeartas Dative imeartas imeartais

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an t-imeartas na himeartais Genitive an imeartais na n-imeartas Dative leis an imeartas don imeartas leis na himeartais

Derived terms

• imeartas focal (“pun”)
• teoiric imeartais (“game theory”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
imeartas	n-imeartas	himeartas	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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