marb

Old Irish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [marβ]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Celtic *marwos (“dead”), from Proto-Indo-European *mr̥wós, ultimately from the root *mer- (“to die”).

Adjective

marb

dead
mortified, insensible, spiritually dead
pertaining to the dead
inanimate
stagnant (water)
(nominalized, masculine) corpse, dead person

Inflection

o/ā-stem
singular	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	marb	marb	marb
vocative	mairb* marb**	marb
accusative	marb	mairb
genitive	mairb	mairbe	mairb
dative	marb	mairb	marb
plural	masculine	feminine/neuter
nominative	mairb	marba
vocative	marbu marba†
accusative	marbu marba†
genitive	marb
dative	marbaib

*modifying a noun whose vocative is different from its nominative
**modifying a noun whose vocative is identical to its nominative
† not when substantivized

Quotations

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. 13^b12
Masu glé lib trá in precept ro·pridchus-sa .i. as·réracht Críst hó marbaib, cid dia léicid cundubairt for drécht úaib de resurrectione hominum?
If, then, what I have preached is clear to you, namely that Christ has risen from the dead, why do you pl leave doubt on a portion of you concerning the resurrection of humans?
(literally, “…the preaching that I have preached…”)

Descendants

Irish: marbh
Manx: marroo
Scottish Gaelic: marbh

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

·marb

inflection of marbaid:
1. third-person singular preterite conjunct
2. first-person singular present subjunctive conjunct

Mutation

Mutation of *marb*
radical	lenition	nasalization
marb also mmarb in h-prothesis environments	marb pronounced with /β̃-/	marb also mmarb

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.