meirg

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish meirc,[1] from Proto-Celtic *mergī (“rust, corrosion”), from Proto-Indo-European *merǵ- (“to be wet, withered”). Cognate with Welsh merydd (“stagnant”), Breton mergl (“rust”), Middle High German murc (“withered”), Russian моро́з (moróz, “frost”) and Albanian mardhë (“frost”).[2]

Pronunciation

Noun

meirg f (genitive singular meirge)

  1. rust
  2. irritability, crustiness

Declension

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

Derived terms

  • meirgdhíonach
  • meirgeach
  • meirgeacht
  • meirgigh
  • meirgstroighin
  • ruamheirg

Mutation

Mutated forms of meirg
radical lenition eclipsis
meirg mheirg 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), “1 meirg, meirc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*mergī”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 267
  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, § 45, page 24
  4. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung
  5. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 111, page 44

Further reading

  • “meirg”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  • Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “meirg”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 479
  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “meirg”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish meirc, from Proto-Celtic *mergī (“rust, corrosion”), from Proto-Indo-European *merǵ- (“to be wet, withered”). Cognate with Welsh merydd (“stagnant”), Middle High German murc (“withered”), Russian моро́з (moróz, “frost”) and Albanian mardhë (“frost”).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmeɾʲekʲ/

Noun

meirg f (genitive singular meirge, no plural)

  1. rust, corrosion

Verb

meirg (past mheirg, future meirgidh, verbal noun meirg, past participle meirgte)

  1. rust, corrode
    Tha an rothair agam a' meirg sa gharaids. ― My bicycle is rusting in the garage.

Derived terms

  • meirg-umha (“verdigris”)
  • meirg-dhìonach (“rust-proof”)
  • meirgeach (“rusty”)
  • meirgte (“rusted, rusty, covered in rust”)

Mutation

Mutation of meirg
radical lenition
meirg mheirg

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

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*mergī”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 267
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