meidhir

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Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Irish medar.[2]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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meidhir f (genitive singular meidhre)

  1. gaiety, hilarity, joviality, mirth
  2. merriment
  3. pleasantry

Declension

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
meidhir mheidhir not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ meidhir”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 medar, medair”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 22, page 13

Further reading

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