meath
English edit
Noun edit
meath
Anagrams edit
Irish edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old Irish methaid (“degenerates, declines, fails, is blighted; fails, comes short; blights, causes to decay; enfeebles, intimidates”).
Verb edit
meath (present analytic meathann, future analytic meathfaidh, verbal noun meath, past participle meata)
Conjugation edit
conjugation of meath (first conjugation – A)
* indirect relative
† archaic or dialect form
‡‡ dependent form used with particles that trigger eclipsis
Etymology 2 edit
From Old Irish meth (“decay, blight, wasting, failure; (moral) feebleness, degeneracy; failure (to fulfil an obligation)”).
Noun edit
meath m (genitive singular meatha)
- verbal noun of meath
- decline, decay, decadence; failure
Declension edit
Declension of meath
Bare forms (no plural of this noun)
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Forms with the definite article:
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Synonyms edit
- (decline, decay, failure): meathlú
Derived terms edit
- aghaidh mheata (“pale, thin, face”)
- croí meata (“faint, craven, heart”)
- gníomh meata (“cowardly, dastardly, deed”)
- meath na seanaoise (“senile decay”)
- meath uirbeach (“urban blight”)
Etymology 3 edit
Noun edit
meath m (genitive singular meath)
- Alternative form of meá (“balance, scales; weight, measure; equivalent; equal, match; estimation, judgment; measure, expedient”)
Declension edit
Declension of meath
Bare forms (no plural of this noun)
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Forms with the definite article
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Mutation edit
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
meath | mheath | not applicable |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References edit
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “meath”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “methaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “meth”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language