meáchan
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Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- meadhachan, meádhachan, meadhchan, meádhchan (superseded)
- meáchaint, meadhachaint, meádhchaint, meaghchaint
Etymology
[edit]From meáigh (“to weigh”) + -chan.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]meáchan m (genitive singular meáchain, nominative plural meáchain)
- weight (force due to gravity)
- (nonstandard) verbal noun of meáigh
- Synonym: meá
Declension
[edit]Declension of meáchan
Bare forms:
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Forms with the definite article:
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Derived terms
[edit]- frithmheáchan (“counterweight”)
Mutation
[edit]Irish mutation | ||
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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
[edit]- 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