meadhanach

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish medónach (compare Irish meánach). By surface analysis, meadhan +‎ -ach.

Adjective

meadhanach (genitive singular masculine meadhanaich)

1. middle
2. middling, tolerable, average, so-so

   Synonym: cuibheasach

   Antonym: mì-mheadhanach

Derived terms

• Na Linntean Meadhanach

Related terms

• meadhanachd

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Lenition
meadhanach	mheadhanach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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