muid
English Edit
Etymology Edit
Borrowed from French muid, from Latin modius. Doublet of modius and mud.
Noun Edit
muid (plural muids)
- An old French liquid measure of approximately 274.2 litres.
Anagrams Edit
French Edit
Etymology Edit
Pronunciation Edit
Noun Edit
muid m (plural muids)
Further reading Edit
- “muid”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Irish Edit
Etymology Edit
From the first-person plural present verb ending -mid reanalyzed as a subject pronoun.
Pronunciation Edit
Pronoun Edit
muid (emphatic form muide, muidne)
Usage notes Edit
- The use of muid as the subject of analytic verb forms is accepted in the written standard as an alternative to synthetic first-person plural verb forms. It is found in colloquial usage in Ulster and parts of Connacht.
Synonyms Edit
- sinn (disjunctive)
See also Edit
Irish personal pronouns
Number | Person (and gender) | Conjunctive (emphatic) |
Disjunctive (emphatic) |
Possessive determiner |
---|---|---|---|---|
Singular | First | mé (mise) |
mo L m' before vowel sounds | |
Second | tú (tusa)1 |
thú (thusa) |
do L d' before vowel sounds | |
Third masculine | sé (seisean) |
é (eisean) |
a L | |
Third feminine | sí (sise) |
í (ise) |
a H | |
Third neuter | — | ea | — | |
Plural | First | muid, sinn (muidne, muide), (sinne) |
ár E | |
Second | sibh (sibhse)1 |
bhur E | ||
Third | siad (siadsan) |
iad (iadsan) |
a E |