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Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish mithem (“midsummer, June”), from Proto-Celtic *medyo-samīno- (compare Welsh Mehefin).
Pronunciation
Noun
Meitheamh m (genitive singular Meithimh, nominative plural Meithimh)
- June (sixth month of the Gregorian calendar)
- middle month
Declension
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| Meitheamh
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Mheitheamh
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not applicable
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| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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See also
- (Gregorian calendar months) Eanáir, Feabhra, Márta, Aibreán, Bealtaine, Meitheamh, Iúil, Lúnasa, Meán Fómhair, Deireadh Fómhair, Samhain, Mí na Nollag (Category: ga:Months)
References
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “Meitheamh”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “mithem”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language