medón

Old Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mediānus.

Noun

medón m

1. middle

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

• airmedón (“the very middle, centre”)
• medónach (“central, middle, intermediate”, adjective)
• medóndae (“intermediate; medium”, adjective)

Descendants

• Irish: meán
• Manx: mean
• Scottish Gaelic: meadhan

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
medón also mmedón after a proclitic ending in a vowel	medón pronounced with /β̃(ʲ)-/	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “medón”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language