maith

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /mˠɑh/^[1]
• (Connacht) IPA^(key): /mˠa/^[2]
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /mˠaiç/^[3]

From Old Irish maith^[4] (compare Scottish Gaelic math and Manx mie), from Proto-Celtic *matis (compare Welsh and Breton mad, Cornish mas).

maith (genitive singular masculine maith, genitive singular feminine maithe, plural maithe, comparative fearr)

1. good

• Takes the adverbial construction go maith when used predicatively after a form of bí:

• Tá an anraith seo go maith. ― This soup is good.

maith f (genitive singular maithe, nominative plural maithe)

1. good, goodness

• maitheas

From Old Irish maithid,^[5] from the adjective.

maith (present analytic maitheann, future analytic maithfidh, verbal noun maitheamh, past participle maite)

1. to forgive, pardon

• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “maiṫ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 701; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “maith”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

• IPA^(key): [maθʲ]

From Proto-Celtic *matis, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂tis (“ripe, good”), from *meh₂- (“to ripen, to mature”). Cognate with Welsh mad and Gaulish mat.

• maid

maith (comparative ferr, superlative dech)

1. good
   • 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. 15^c23

     Hóre is cuci rigmi, is ferr dún placere illi.

     Since it is to him we will go, it is better for us to please him.

   • 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. 16^b9

     Ní indráigne dúib cinin·fil lib, ar idib maithi cene.

     It is no detriment to you pl, though we are not with you, for you are good already.

   • 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. 33^a15

     Fomnid-si, a phopul núíednissi, ar ce dud·rónath ní di maith fri maccu Israhél…

     Take heed, O people of the New Testament, for although some good has been done to the children of Israel…

   • 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. 51^b10

     In tan as·mber Dauid “intellectum tibi dabo”, sech is arde són do·mbéra Día do neuch nod·n-eirbea ind ⁊ génas triit con·festar cid as imgabthi do dénum di ulc ⁊ cid as déinti dó di maith. Aithesc trá lesom insin a persin Dǽ.

     When David says, “I will give thee understanding”, that is a sign that God will give to everyone that will trust in him, and work through him, that he may know what evil he must avoid doing, and what good he must do. He has then here a reply in the person of God.

• mad (adverb)

• Irish: maith
• Manx: mie
• Scottish Gaelic: math

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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

·maith

1. third-person singular present indicative conjunct of maidid

maith (past mhaith, future maithidh, verbal noun mathadh, past participle maithte)

1. alternative form of math

maith m

1. genitive singular of math

• IPA^(key): /mai̯θ/
• Rhymes: -ai̯θ

maith (feminine singular maith, plural meithion, equative maithed, comparative maithach, superlative maithaf)

1. long, far, large, extensive, numerous
2. long-lasting, tedious, tiresome

   Synonyms: hir, hirfaith

3. great (of quality)
4. sad, bitter
5. wise, clever, cunning, sly

• amser maith yn ôl (“a long time ago”)
• hirfaith, gorfaith (“prolonged”)

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “maith”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies