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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Declension of meidhir (second declension, no plural)
bare forms
case singular
nominative meidhir
vocative a mheidhir
genitive meidhre
dative meidhir
forms with the definite article
case singular
nominative an mheidhir
genitive na meidhre
dative leis an meidhir
don mheidhir

Mutation

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Mutated forms of meidhir
radical lenition eclipsis
meidhir mheidhir 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

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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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