insamlathar

Old Irish

Etymology

Denominative verb from insamlad (“likeness”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [inˈsaβ̃laθar]

Verb

in·samlathar (prototonic ·insamladar, verbal noun intamail)

to imitate, emulate
- 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. 5^b20
  trisin intamail sin .i. combad ǽt leu buid domsa i n-iriss et duús in intamlitis
  through that imitation, i.e. so that there may be jealousy with them for me to be in faith and if by chance they might imitate [me]
- 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. 9^a14
  Bed adthramli .i. gaibid comarbus for n-athar et intamlid a béssu.
  Be pl fatherlike, i.e. take your father’s heritage and imitate his manners
to compare, liken
to simulate

Conjugation

Complex, class A I present, s preterite, f future, a subjunctive, deponent
		active						passive
		singular			plural			singular	plural
		1^st	2^nd	3^rd	1^st	2^nd	3^rd	singular	plural
present indicative	deut.			in·samlathar			in·samlatar
present indicative	prot.			·insamladar	·intṡamlammar	·intamlid, ·intṡamlid

imperfect indicative	deut.
imperfect indicative	prot.

preterite	deut.
preterite	prot.

perfect	deut.						inru·samlasatar
perfect	prot.

future	deut.					in·samlibid
future	prot.

conditional	deut.
conditional	prot.

present subjunctive	deut.	in·samlar	in·samailter
present subjunctive	prot.		·intamlae		·intamlammar

past subjunctive	deut.
past subjunctive	prot.					·intṡamlithe	·intamlitis

imperative			intamaltae			intamlid, intṡamlid

verbal noun		intamail
past participle
verbal of necessity		intamaltai

Mutation

The lenition of this form is apparently unattested but would probably have been int·ṡamlathar.