méit

See also: meit

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *mantī (“quantity”) (compare Welsh maint and possibly French maint if the latter is a loanword from Gaulish), from Proto-Indo-European *mh₁-nt-, from *meh₁- (“to measure”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mʲeːdʲ]

Noun

méit f (genitive méite)

1. size, magnitude

Declension

Feminine ī-stem

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	méitL	—	—
vocative	méitL	—	—
accusative	méitN	—	—
genitive	méiteH	—	—
dative	méitL	—	—

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

• ^H = triggers aspiration
• ^L = triggers lenition
• ^N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

• a méit
• is méite la
• ní ed a méit

Descendants

• Irish: méid, méad
• Scottish Gaelic: meud
• Manx: mooad

Mutation

Mutation of méit

radical	lenition	nasalization
méit also mméit after a proclitic ending in a vowel	méit pronounced with /β̃(ʲ)-/	unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

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