méit
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See also: meit
Old Irish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From 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[edit]
Noun[edit]
méit f (genitive méite)
Declension[edit]
Feminine 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[edit]
Descendants[edit]
Mutation[edit]
Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
méit also mméit after a proclitic |
méit pronounced with /ṽ(ʲ)-/ |
unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading[edit]
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “méit, mét”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language