mescaid
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Old Irish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Celtic *miskati, from Proto-Indo-European *miḱ-sḱ-éti, from *meyḱ-.
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
mescaid (verbal noun mescad)
- to mix
- c. 700 Immram Brain, published in The Voyage of Bran son of Febal to the land of the living (1895, London: David Nutt), pp. 1-35, edited and with translations by Kuno Meyer and Alfred Nutt, stanza 16
- Mescid fairggi co mbí fuil.
- He stirs the sea until it is blood.
- c. 700 Immram Brain, published in The Voyage of Bran son of Febal to the land of the living (1895, London: David Nutt), pp. 1-35, edited and with translations by Kuno Meyer and Alfred Nutt, stanza 16
- to dip, to plunge
- to confuse
Inflection[edit]
Simple, class A I present, s preterite, f future, a subjunctive
| 1st sg. | 2nd sg. | 3rd sg. | 1st pl. | 2nd pl. | 3rd pl. | Passive sg. | Passive pl. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Present indicative | Abs. | mescid, mescaid; mescthus (with suffixed pronoun -us) | mescthair | ||||||
| Conj. | ·mescid, ·mescaid | ·mescthar | |||||||
| Rel. | mescthar | ||||||||
| Imperfect indicative | ·mescad | ||||||||
| Preterite | Abs. | mescais | |||||||
| Conj. | ·mescus | ·mescais | ·mesc, ·mescc | ·mescsat | ·mescad | ·mesctha | |||
| Rel. | |||||||||
| Perfect | Deut. | ro·mescsat | ro·mesctha | ||||||
| Prot. | |||||||||
| Future | Abs. | mescfait | |||||||
| Conj. | ·mescfaiter | ||||||||
| Rel. | mescfaiter | ||||||||
| Conditional | |||||||||
| Present subjunctive | Abs. | mescae | mescid, mescaid | mescthair | |||||
| Conj. | ·mescae | ·mescid, ·mescaid | ·mescthar | ||||||
| Rel. | mescthar | ||||||||
| Past subjunctive | ·mescad | ||||||||
| Imperative | mesc, mescc | mescad | mescid, mescaid | ||||||
| Verbal noun | mescad | ||||||||
| Past participle | mesctha | ||||||||
| Verbal of necessity | |||||||||
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Further reading[edit]
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “mescaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Categories:
- Old Irish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Old Irish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *meyḱ-
- Old Irish terms inherited from Proto-Celtic
- Old Irish terms derived from Proto-Celtic
- Old Irish terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Old Irish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Old Irish lemmas
- Old Irish verbs
- Old Irish terms with quotations
- Old Irish simple verbs
- Old Irish class A I present verbs
- Old Irish s preterite verbs
- Old Irish f future verbs
- Old Irish a subjunctive verbs