- iomair
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need, behove: "serve"; Irish timthire, servant, Old Irish timmthirim, I serve. For force, cf. feum. The root is tìr, land?IIIemploy, exercise, play, noun iomairt, Irish imirt, a game, Early Irish imbert, Old Irish vb. imbrim, infero, etc.: for imb-berim, root ber of beir, q.v.
Etymological dictionary of the Gaelic language. Alexander Gairm Publications. 1982.