meirle

See also: mèirle

Old Irish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mʲer.lʲe/

Noun

meirle f

1. stealing, theft, robbery

   Synonym: gait

Inflection

Feminine iā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	meirleL	meirliL	meirli
Vocative	meirleL	meirliL	meirli
Accusative	meirliN	meirliL	meirli
Genitive	meirle	meirleL	meirleN
Dative	meirliL	meirlib	meirlib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Scottish Gaelic: mèirle

Mutation

Mutation of meirle

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

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

meirle f (genitive singular meirle, plural meirlean)

1. Alternative form of mèirle.