meisce

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish mescae (“drunkenness, intoxication”), from Proto-Celtic *miskos (“mixed up, confused”), from Proto-Indo-European *meyḱ- (“to mix”).

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈmʲɛʃcɪ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈmʲɪʃcɪ/

Noun

meisce f (genitive singular meisce)

1. drunkenness, intoxication

Declension

Declension of meisce

Fourth declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative meisce Vocative a mheisce Genitive meisce Dative meisce

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Nominative an mheisce Genitive na meisce Dative leis an meisce don mheisce

Derived terms

• ar meisce (“drunk, intoxicated”)
• bogmheisce f (“slight drunkenness”)
• meisceoir m (“drunkard”)
• meisciúil (“intoxicating”, adjective)

Mutation

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

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “meisce”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “mescae”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 44
• Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 74