meánaosta

Irish

Etymology

From meánaois (“middle age”) +‎ -ta (adjectival suffix) or meán- (“middle”) +‎ aosta (“aged, old”).

Adjective

meánaosta

1. middle-aged

Synonyms

• bunaosta (“fairly old; middle-aged”)

Related terms

• anaosta (“youthful”, adjective)
• breacaosta (“fairly old”, adjective)
• cianaosta (“long-lived, very old; pristine, primeval”, adjective)
• cnagaosta (“advanced in years, elderly”, adjective)
• comhaosta (“of the same age; contemporary, coeval”, adjective)
• críonaosta (“old and withered”, adjective)
• foraosta (“very old”, adjective)
• lánaosta (“of full age; rather old”, adjective)
• scothaosta (“fairly old, elderly”, adjective)
• tonnaosta (“getting on in years”, adjective)
• tromaosta (“of advanced age”, adjective)

 

Mutation

Mutated forms of meánaosta

radical	lenition	eclipsis
meánaosta	mheánaosta	not applicable

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

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “meánaosta”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN