meisce
Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish mescae (“drunkenness, intoxication”), from Proto-Celtic *miskos (“mixed up, confused”), from Proto-Indo-European *meyḱ- (“to mix”).
Pronunciation
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Noun
meisce f (genitive singular meisce)
Declension
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Declension of meisce
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Bare forms (no plural of this noun)
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Forms with the definite article
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Derived terms
- ar meisce (“drunk, intoxicated”)
- bogmheisce f (“slight drunkenness”)
- meisceoir m (“drunkard”)
- meisciúil (“intoxicating”, adjective)
Mutation
| Irish mutation | ||
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| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| meisce | mheisce | 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) “meisce”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “mescae”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 44
Categories:
- Irish terms inherited from Old Irish
- Irish terms derived from Old Irish
- Irish terms derived from Proto-Celtic
- Irish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Irish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Irish lemmas
- Irish nouns
- Irish feminine nouns
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