marb

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Old Irish

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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

Adjective

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marb

  1. dead
  2. mortified, insensible, spiritually dead
  3. pertaining to the dead
  4. inanimate
  5. stagnant (water)
  6. (nominalized, masculine) corpse, dead person
Inflection
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o/ā-stem
Singular Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative marb marb marb
Vocative mairb*
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
Notes *modifying a noun whose vocative is different from its nominative

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

Quotations
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  • 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. 13b12
    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
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  • Irish: marbh
  • Manx: marroo
  • Scottish Gaelic: marbh

Further reading

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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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·marb

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

Mutation

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Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
marb
also mmarb after a proclitic
ending in a vowel
marb
pronounced with /β̃(ʲ)-/
unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.