Irish
Etymology
From meille (“flabby, loose skin”) + -óg.
Pronunciation
Noun
meilleog f (genitive singular meilleoige, nominative plural meilleoga)
- roll (of fat or skin)
- wattle (loose hanging skin)
- Synonym: sprochaille
Declension
Declension of meilleog (second declension)
| bare forms
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singular
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plural
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| nominative
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meilleog
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meilleoga
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| vocative
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a mheilleog
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a mheilleoga
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| genitive
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meilleoige
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meilleog
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| dative
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meilleog
meilleoig (archaic, dialectal)
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meilleoga
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| forms with the definite article
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singular
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plural
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| nominative
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an mheilleog
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na meilleoga
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| genitive
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na meilleoige
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na meilleog
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| dative
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leis an meilleog
leis an meilleoig (archaic, dialectal)
don mheilleog
don mheilleoig (archaic, dialectal)
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leis na meilleoga
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Mutation
Mutated forms of meilleog
| radical
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lenition
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eclipsis
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| meilleog
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mheilleog
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not applicable
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Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
- “meilleog”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “meilleog”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 34
