máistir
Irish
editAlternative forms
edit- máighistir (superseded)[1]
- maighisdear, maighisdir, máighisdir, maighistear, maighistir, maistir (archaic)
Etymology
editFrom Old Irish magister, from Latin magister.[2]
Pronunciation
editNoun
editmáistir m (genitive singular máistir, nominative plural máistrí)
- master
- 1939, Peig Sayers, “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, in Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études; 270) (overall work in French), Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, page 198:
- Do chuireas le fán an tsaoghail mo mháighistir agus mo mháighistreás, agus níl fios agam an béo nó marbh iad.
- I have sent my master and my mistress wandering, and I don’t know if they’re dead or alive.
Declension
editDeclension of máistir
Bare forms
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Forms with the definite article
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Derived terms
editMutation
editIrish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
máistir | mháistir | not applicable |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
edit- ^ Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “máiġistir”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 457
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “maigister, maigistir”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 141, page 56
Further reading
edit- “máistir”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “máistir”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN