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

1. dead
2. mortified, insensible, spiritually dead
3. pertaining to the dead
4. inanimate
5. stagnant (water)
6. (nominalized, masculine) corpse, dead person

Inflection

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

• 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

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “marb”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

·marb

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

Mutation

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.