muid

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French muid, from Latin modius. Doublet of modius and mud.

Noun

muid (plural muids)

1. An old French liquid measure of approximately 274.2 litres.

Anagrams

• Dumi, Mudi

French

Etymology

Inherited from Latin modius.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɥi/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Noun

muid m (plural muids)

1. (historical) hogshead

Further reading

• “muid”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Irish

Etymology

From the first-person plural present verb ending -mid reanalyzed as a subject pronoun.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mˠidʲ/

Pronoun

muid (emphatic form muide, muidne)

1. (Connacht, Ulster) we (conjunctive)

Usage notes

• The use of muid as the subject of analytic verb forms is accepted in the written standard as an alternative to synthetic first-person plural verb forms. It is found in colloquial usage in Ulster and parts of Connacht.

Synonyms

• sinn (disjunctive)

See also

Irish personal pronouns

	person		conjunctive (emphatic)	disjunctive (emphatic)	possessive determiner
singular	first		mé (mise)		mo L m' before vowel sounds
	second		tú (tusa)1	thú (thusa)	do L d' before vowel sounds
	third	m	sé (seisean)	é (eisean)	a L
		f	sí (sise)	í (ise)	a H
		n	—	ea	—
plural	first		muid, sinn (muidne, muide), (sinne)		ár E
	second		sibh (sibhse)1		bhur E
	third		siad (siadsan)	iad (iadsan)	a E

^L Triggers lenition   ^E Triggers eclipsis   ^H Triggers h-prothesis

¹ Also used as the vocative

The reflexive is formed by adding féin to the relevant pronoun.
For instance, "myself" = mé féin, "yourselves" = sibh féin.

Further reading

• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927), “muid”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla [Irish and English Dictionary], 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 767; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “muid”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla [Irish–English Dictionary], Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN