meisce

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish mescae (“drunkenness, intoxication”), from Proto-Celtic *miskos (“mixed up, confused”), from Proto-Indo-European *meyḱ- (“to mix”).

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /ˈmʲɛʃcɪ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈmʲɪʃcɪ/

Noun

meisce f (genitive singular meisce)

1. drunkenness, intoxication

Declension

Declension of meisce (fourth declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative meisce vocative a mheisce genitive meisce dative meisce forms with the definite article case singular nominative an mheisce genitive na meisce dative leis an meisce don mheisce

Derived terms

• ar meisce (“drunk, intoxicated”)
• bogmheisce f (“slight drunkenness”)
• meisceoir m (“drunkard”)
• meisciúil (“intoxicating”, adjective)

Mutation

Mutated forms of meisce

radical	lenition	eclipsis
meisce	mheisce	not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “meisce”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “mescae”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 44
• Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 74