muid

Borrowed from French muid, from Latin modius. Doublet of modius and mud.

muid (plural muids)

1. An old French liquid measure of approximately 274.2 litres.

• Dumi, Mudi

Inherited from Latin modius.

• IPA^(key): /mɥi/

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muid m (plural muids)

1. (historical) hogshead

• “muid”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From the first-person plural present verb ending -mid reanalyzed as a subject pronoun.

• IPA^(key): /mˠɪdʲ/

muid (emphatic form muide, muidne)

1. (Connacht, Ulster) we (conjunctive)

• The use of muid as the subject of analytic verb forms is accepted in the written standard as an alternative to synthetic first-person plural verb forms. It is found in colloquial usage in Ulster and parts of Connacht.

• sinn (disjunctive)