miosúr
Appearance
Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Old French mesure, from Latin mēnsūra (“a measuring, rule, something to measure by”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]miosúr m (genitive singular miosúir, nominative plural miosúir)
- measure (unspecified quantity or capacity; ruler, measuring stick)
- tape measure, measuring tape
Declension
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Derived terms
[edit]- as miosúr (“beyond measure, boundless; exceeding, immoderate, extraordinary”)
Mutation
[edit]radical | lenition | eclipsis |
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miosúr | mhiosúr | 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
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “misúr”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “miosúr”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “miosúr”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “miosúr”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024