meidhir

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish medar.[2]

Pronunciation

Noun

meidhir f (genitive singular meidhre)

  1. gaiety, hilarity, joviality, mirth
  2. merriment
  3. pleasantry

Declension
Declension of meidhir

Second declension

Bare forms (no plural form of this noun)

Case Singular
Nominative meidhir
Vocative a mheidhir
Genitive meidhre
Dative meidhir

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular
Nominative an mheidhir
Genitive na meidhre
Dative leis an meidhir

don mheidhir

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

References
  1. “meidhir”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 medar, medair”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 22, page 13

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