meanma
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Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Irish menma, from Old Irish menmae, from Proto-Celtic *menmens, from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to think, remember”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]meanma f (genitive singular meanman)
- mind, thought, attention
- state of mind, spirit, courage, morale
- disposition, inclination, desire
- presentiment
- (music) spirit
Declension
[edit]Declension of meanma
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Bare forms (no plural for this noun):
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Forms with the definite article:
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Derived terms
[edit]Mutation
[edit]| Irish mutation | ||
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| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| meanma | mheanma | not applicable |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “meanma”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 menma”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “meanma”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “meanma”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
Categories:
- Irish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Irish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *men- (think)
- Irish terms inherited from Middle Irish
- Irish terms derived from Middle Irish
- Irish terms inherited from Old Irish
- Irish terms derived from Old Irish
- Irish terms inherited from Proto-Celtic
- Irish terms derived from Proto-Celtic
- Irish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Irish lemmas
- Irish nouns
- Irish feminine nouns
- ga:Music
- Irish fifth-declension nouns