méith

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Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Irish méth (plump, fat),[2] from Proto-Celtic *mētos (whence Welsh mwyd (soaking, moistening)). The noun is a substantivization of the adjective.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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méith (genitive singular feminine méithe, plural méithe, comparative méithe)

  1. rich (having an intense fatty or sugary flavour)
  2. fat, corpulent, plump
    Synonym: ramhar
  3. rich (productive), fertile, fruitful (favorable to growth)
    Synonyms: borrúil, torthúil
  4. juicy (of meat)
  5. lush (dense, teeming with life), succulent
  6. mellow (soft or tender by reason of ripeness; having a tender pulp)
  7. (nominalized, feminine) fat (specialized animal tissue)
    Synonyms: saill, méathras

Declension

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Derived terms

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
méith mhéith not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ méith”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “méth”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 94, page 37

Further reading

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