meath-thinneas

Irish

Etymology

From meath- (“failing, fading, weak; middling, moderately, fairly, rather”) +‎ tinneas (“sickness”).

Noun

meath-thinneas m (genitive singular meath-thinnis)

1. indisposition, sickliness, upset

Declension

Declension of meath-thinneas (first declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative meath-thinneas vocative a mheath-thinnis genitive meath-thinnis dative meath-thinneas forms with the definite article case singular nominative an meath-thinneas genitive an mheath-thinnis dative leis an meath-thinneas don mheath-thinneas

Related terms

• meath-thinn (“out of sorts, indisposed, sickly”, adjective)

Mutation

Mutated forms of meath-thinneas

radical	lenition	eclipsis
meath-thinneas	mheath-thinneas	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) “meath-thinneas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN