meáchan

Irish

Alternative forms

• meadhachan, meádhachan, meadhchan, meádhchan (superseded)
• meáchaint, meadhachaint, meádhchaint, meaghchaint

Etymology

From meáigh (“to weigh”) +‎ -chan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmʲaːxənˠ/

Noun

meáchan m (genitive singular meáchain, nominative plural meáchain)

1. weight (force due to gravity)
2. (nonstandard) verbal noun of meáigh

   Synonym: meá

Declension

Declension of meáchan

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative meáchan meáchain Vocative a mheáchain a mheáchana Genitive meáchain meáchan Dative meáchan meáchain

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an meáchan na meáchain Genitive an mheáchain na meáchan Dative leis an meáchan don mheáchan leis na meáchain

Derived terms

• frithmheáchan (“counterweight”)

Mutation

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

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “meáchan”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “meáchan”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “medachán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “meaḋaċan”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 471