medón

See also: Medon

Old Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mediānus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmʲeðoːn/

Noun

medón m (genitive medóin, nominative plural medóin)

1. middle

Inflection

Masculine o-stem

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	medón	medónL	medóinL
vocative	medóin	medónL	medónuH
accusative	medónN	medónL	medónuH
genitive	medóinL	medón	medónN
dative	medónL	medónaib	medónaib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

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

Derived terms

• airmedón (“the very middle, centre”)
• inmedón (“middle”)
• medónach (“central, middle, intermediate”)
• medóndae (“intermediate; medium”)

Descendants

• Irish: meán
• Manx: mean
• Scottish Gaelic: meadhan
• →? Welsh: mewn

Mutation

Mutation of medón

radical	lenition	nasalization
medón also mmedón after a proclitic ending in a vowel	medón 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), “medón”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language