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From Middle Irish mithid, alteration of Old Irish mithig.[2] The final /d/ of the modern form may be due to assimilation to the following preposition do.[3]
mithid f (genitive singular mithide, nominative plural mithidí)
- due time, high time, about time
Is mithid dom imeacht.- It’s time for me to leave.
Is mithid liom imeacht.- I think it’s time to leave.
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
- ^ “mithid”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “mithig”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 405, page 134
- ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 90, page 50
- ^ Mhac an Fhailigh, Éamonn (1968) The Irish of Erris, Co. Mayo: A Phonemic Study, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, section 392, page 155
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 175, page 67
