meirg

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Irish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Irish meirc,[1] from Proto-Celtic *mergī (“rust, corrosion”), from Proto-Indo-European *merǵ- (“to be wet, withered”). Cognate with Welsh merydd (“stagnant”), Breton mergl (“rust”), Middle High German murc (“withered”), Russian моро́з (moróz, “frost”) and Albanian mardhë (“frost”).[2]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

meirg f (genitive singular meirge)

  1. rust
  2. irritability, crustiness

Declension[edit]

Declension of meirg

Second declension

Bare forms (no plural form of this noun)

Case Singular
Nominative meirg
Vocative a mheirg
Genitive meirge
Dative meirg

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular
Nominative an mheirg
Genitive na meirge
Dative leis an meirg

don mheirg

Mutation[edit]

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
meirg mheirg not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References[edit]

  1. ^ G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 meirg, meirc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*mergī”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 267
  3. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 45, page 24
  4. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 111, page 44

Further reading[edit]

Scottish Gaelic[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Irish meirc, from Proto-Celtic *mergī (“rust, corrosion”), from Proto-Indo-European *merǵ- (“to be wet, withered”). Cognate with Welsh merydd (“stagnant”), Middle High German murc (“withered”), Russian моро́з (moróz, “frost”) and Albanian mardhë (“frost”).[1]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

meirg f (genitive singular meirge, no plural)

  1. rust, corrosion

Verb[edit]

meirg (past mheirg, future meirgidh, verbal noun meirg, past participle meirgte)

  1. rust, corrode
    Tha an rothair agam a' meirg sa gharaids. ― My bicycle is rusting in the garage.

Derived terms[edit]

Mutation[edit]

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

References[edit]

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*mergī”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 267
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