meáigh
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Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish medaigid (“weighs; ponders, meditates; deems, judges”). Akin to meá. Compare Scottish Gaelic meidhich.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]meáigh (present analytic meánn, future analytic meáfaidh, verbal noun meá, past participle meáite)
- (transitive, intransitive) balance, weigh
- (transitive, intransitive) estimate, measure; consider, judge
Conjugation
[edit]conjugation of meáigh (first conjugation – C)
* indirect relative
† archaic or dialect form
‡‡ dependent form used with particles that trigger eclipsis
See also
[edit]Mutation
[edit]radical | lenition | eclipsis |
---|---|---|
meáigh | mheáigh | 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
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “meáigh”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “medaigid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 58