meabhair

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish mebuir (“recollection, memory”), from Latin memoria.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

meabhair f (genitive singular meabhrach)

  1. mind, sense
  2. intellect, reason, intelligence
  3. sanity

Declension

Declension of meabhair (fifth declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative meabhair
vocative a mheabhair
genitive meabhrach
dative meabhair
meabhraigh (archaic, dialectal)
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an mheabhair
genitive na meabhrach
dative leis an meabhair
leis an meabhraigh (archaic, dialectal)
don mheabhair
don mheabhraigh (archaic, dialectal)

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of meabhair
radical lenition eclipsis
meabhair mheabhair not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “mebair”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 202, page 102
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 172, page 65

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