maoth

Irish edit

From Middle Irish máeth, móeth (“soft, tender, yielding”), from Old Irish moíth,^[2] from Proto-Celtic *moytos (“tender”), from Proto-Indo-European *meyh₁- (“mild, soft”).

maoth (genitive singular masculine maoith, genitive singular feminine maoithe, plural maotha, comparative maoithe)

Declension of maoth

Positive	Masculine	Feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
	Singular		Plural (m/f)
Nominative	maoth	mhaoth	maotha; mhaotha²
Vocative	mhaoith	mhaoth	maotha
Genitive	mhaoith	maoithe	maotha	maoth
Dative	maoth; mhaoth¹	mhaoth; mhaoith (archaic)	maotha; mhaotha²
Comparative	níos maoithe
Superlative	is maoithe

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
maoth	mhaoth	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

^ “maoth”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
^ G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “maeth, moeth”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 172, page 65

From Middle Irish máeth, móeth (“soft, tender, yielding”), from Old Irish moíth, from Proto-Celtic *moytos (“tender”), from Proto-Indo-European *meyh₁- (“mild, soft”).

maoth (comparative maoithe)

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Lenition
maoth	mhaoth
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.