meadar

See also: méadar

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish metar, from Latin metrum, from Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron, “measure”). Doublet of méadar.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈmʲad̪ˠəɾˠ/

Noun

meadar f (genitive singular meidre, nominative plural meadracha)

  1. churn (vessel)
    Synonym: cuinneog
  2. mether, wooden drinking vessel
  3. pail

Declension
Declension of meadar

Second declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative meadar meadracha
Vocative a mheadar a mheadracha
Genitive meidre meadracha
Dative meadar
meidir (archaic, dialectal)		 meadracha

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an mheadar na meadracha
Genitive na meidre na meadracha
Dative leis an meadar
leis an meidir (archaic, dialectal)

don mheadar
don mheidir (archaic, dialectal)

 leis na meadracha

Descendants
  • → English: mether, medar, meather, madder

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
meadar mheadar not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading
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