misg

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish mescae (“drunkenness, intoxication”) or mesc (“drunk, intoxicated”), from Proto-Indo-European *meik-sko- (“mixed”), from *meik- (“to mix”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /miʃc/

Noun

misg f (genitive singular misge)

1. drunkenness, intoxication, inebriation

   Uair air mhisg is uair air uisge.

   One day drunk and one day drinking water.

   (literally, “One time on drunkenness and one time on water.”)

Synonyms

• daorach
• smùid

Derived terms

• air mhisg (“drunk”)
• fo-mhisg f (“tipsiness”)

Mutation

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

Further reading

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “misg”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “mescae”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language