Irish edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Old Irish medar.[2]

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

meidhir f (genitive singular meidhre)

  1. gaiety, hilarity, joviality, mirth
  2. merriment
  3. pleasantry

Declension edit

Mutation edit

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

References edit

  1. ^ meidhir”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 medar, medair”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 22, page 13

Further reading edit