mescae

Old Irish

Etymology

From mesc (“drunk”) +‎ -e (abstract noun-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmʲeskɘ]

Noun

mescae f

1. drunkenness, intoxication
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 77^d6

     amal nad·fulaing nech mescai ind fino síc ní·fulgam-ni trummai inna fochodo· indaron·comarlecis-ni·

     as a man does not endure the intoxication of wine, so we do not endure the heaviness of the tribulation into which you have let us,

2. daze, bewilderment, excitement

Inflection

Feminine iā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	mescaeL	mescaiL	mescai
Vocative	mescaeL	mescaiL	mescai
Accusative	mescaiN	mescaiL	mescai
Genitive	mescae	mescaeL	mescaeN
Dative	mescaiL	mescaib	mescaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Synonyms

• laithirt

Related terms

• mesc
• mesctha

Descendants

• Irish: meisce
• Manx: meshtey
• Scottish Gaelic: misg

Verb

mescae

1. second-person singular present subjunctive abso of mescaid

·mescae

1. second-person singular present subjunctive conjunctive of mescaid

Mutation

Mutation of mescae

radical	lenition	nasalization
mescae also mmescae after a proclitic ending in a vowel	mescae 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.