meidhir

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish medar.[2]

Pronunciation

Noun

meidhir f (genitive singular meidhre)

  1. gaiety, hilarity, joviality, mirth
  2. merriment
  3. pleasantry

Declension

Declension of meidhir (second declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative meidhir
vocative a mheidhir
genitive meidhre
dative meidhir
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an mheidhir
genitive na meidhre
dative leis an meidhir
don mheidhir

Mutation

Mutated forms of meidhir
radical lenition eclipsis
meidhir mheidhir 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. ^ meidhir”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 medar, medair”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 22, page 13

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