meirge

Irish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse merki from Proto-Germanic *markō (“boundary; boundary marker”), from Proto-Indo-European *mórǵs (“edge, boundary, border”).[1]

Noun

meirge m (genitive singular meirge, nominative plural meirgí)

  1. crest (of a business)
  2. banner, flag
  3. standard (as in a battle standard)
  4. ensign
Declension
Declension of meirge (fourth declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative meirge meirgí
vocative a mheirge a mheirgí
genitive meirge meirgí
dative meirge meirgí
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an meirge na meirgí
genitive an mheirge na meirgí
dative leis an meirge
don mheirge 		leis na meirgí
Derived terms
  • fógra meirge
  • meirge nuachta
  • meirge ríoga
  • meirge scailleagáin
  • meirge suímh
  • scamall meirge

Further reading

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

meirge m

  1. inflection of meirg (“rust, irritability, crustiness”):
    1. genitive singular
    2. genitive plural

References

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