meáchan

Irish

Alternative forms

• meadhachan, meádhachan, meadhchan, meádhchan (superseded)
• meáchaint, meadhachaint, meádhchaint, meaghchaint

Etymology

From meáigh (“to weigh”) +‎ -chan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmʲaːxənˠ/

Noun

meáchan m (genitive singular meáchain, nominative plural meáchain)

1. weight (force due to gravity)
2. (nonstandard) verbal noun of meáigh

   Synonym: meá

Declension

Declension of meáchan (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative meáchan meáchain vocative a mheáchain a mheáchana genitive meáchain meáchan dative meáchan meáchain forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an meáchan na meáchain genitive an mheáchain na meáchan dative leis an meáchan don mheáchan leis na meáchain

Derived terms

• frithmheáchan (“counterweight”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of meáchan

radical	lenition	eclipsis
meáchan	mheáchan	not applicable

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

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “meáchan”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “meáchan”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “medachán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “meaḋaċan”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 471