different between limbed vs imbed

English

Etymology

From Middle English ilimed (“having limbs, limbed”) [and other forms], from i- (prefix forming adjectives, past participles, etc.) + lim (“organ or part of the body, member; extremity of an animal or human body, limb; sexual organ; a person as a member of the group of all Christians; follower; liegeman; corner of a siege tower; arm of the sea; branch of a subject”) (see further at lim) + -ed (suffix forming adjectives); analysable as limb +? -ed.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /l?md/

Adjective

limbed (not comparable)

1. Having limbs.
2. Preceded by a descriptive word: having limbs of a specified kind or quality.

Derived terms

• clean-limbed

Translations

Verb

limbed

1. simple past tense and past participle of limb

References

Anagrams

• Lib Dem, delimb, dimble

English

Verb

imbed (third-person singular simple present imbeds, present participle imbedding, simple past and past participle imbedded)

1. Alternative spelling of embed

Anagrams

• bedim

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• imbad

Etymology

Uncertain. May be cognate with Old Welsh immet, but both the reading and the meaning of that term are uncertain. If the Proto-Celtic term was *?embetom, then it might be cognate with Latin pinguis (“fat”) and/or Hittite ???????????????? (pa-an-ku-uš /pankuš/, “all, entire”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?im?b?eð/

Noun

imbed n (genitive imbid)

1. a large quantity, a large number, abundance, excess; especially an abundance of wealth, riches, food
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 62^b20

2. (law, in the dual number) the two parties to a suit, contract, etc.
3. amount, number

Inflection

Descendants

• Irish: iomad
• Scottish Gaelic: iomadh

Mutation

Further reading

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

References