méit

See also: meit

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *mantī (“quantity”) (compare Welsh maint and possibly French maint if the latter is a loanword from Gaulish), from Proto-Indo-European *mh₁-nt-, from *meh₁- (“to measure”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mʲeːdʲ/

Noun

méit f (genitive méite)

1. size, magnitude

Declension

Feminine ī-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	méitL	—	—
Vocative	méitL	—	—
Accusative	méitN	—	—
Genitive	méiteH	—	—
Dative	méitL	—	—
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

• is méite la
• ní ed a méit

 

Descendants

• Irish: méid, méad
• Scottish Gaelic: meud

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
méit also mméit after a proclitic ending in a vowel	méit pronounced with /β̃(ʲ)-/	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “méit, mét”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language