misg

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish mescae (“drunkenness, intoxication”) or mesc (“drunk, intoxicated”), from Proto-Indo-European *meik-sko- (“mixed”), from *meik- (“to mix”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /miʃc/

Noun

misg f (genitive singular misge)

1. drunkenness, intoxication, inebriation

   Uair air mhisg is uair air uisge.

   One day drunk and one day drinking water.

   (literally, “One time on drunkenness and one time on water.”)

Synonyms

• daorach
• smùid

Derived terms

• air mhisg (“drunk”)
• fo-mhisg f (“tipsiness”)

Mutation

Mutation of misg

radical	lenition
misg	mhisg

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

Further reading

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “misg”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “mescae”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language