méit
See also: meit
Old Irish
editEtymology
editFrom 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
editNoun
editméit f (genitive méite)
Declension
editFeminine ī-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | méitL | — | — |
Vocative | méitL | — | — |
Accusative | méitN | — | — |
Genitive | méiteH | — | — |
Dative | méitL | — | — |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Derived terms
editDescendants
editMutation
editOld Irish mutation | ||
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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
edit- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “méit, mét”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language