imeartas

Irish

Alternative forms

imreas

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈɪmʲəɾˠt̪ˠəsˠ]

Noun

imeartas m (genitive singular imeartais, nominative plural imeartais)

play, playfulness
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

"imeartas" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
C. Marstrander, E. G. Quin et al., editors (1913–76), “immertas”, in Dictionary of the Irish Language: Based Mainly on Old and Middle Irish Materials, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, →ISBN