maoth

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish máeth, móeth (“soft, tender, yielding”), from Old Irish moíth, from Proto-Celtic *moytos (“tender”), from Proto-Indo-European *meyh₁- (“mild, soft”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

maoth (genitive singular masculine maoith, genitive singular feminine maoithe, plural maotha, comparative maoithe)

  1. soft, tender
  2. weak, enervate
  3. moist
  4. soppy, sentimental

Declension

Declension of maoth
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative maoth mhaoth maotha;
mhaotha2
vocative mhaoith maotha
genitive maoithe maotha maoth
dative maoth;
mhaoth1 		mhaoth;
mhaoith (archaic) 		maotha;
mhaotha2
Comparative níos maoithe
Superlative is maoithe

1 When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
2 When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of maoth
radical lenition eclipsis
maoth mhaoth not applicable

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

References

  1. ^ “maoth”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “maeth, moeth”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 172, page 65

Further reading

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish máeth, móeth (“soft, tender, yielding”), from Old Irish moíth, from Proto-Celtic *moytos (“tender”), from Proto-Indo-European *meyh₁- (“mild, soft”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

maoth (comparative maoithe)

  1. demulcent, moistened
  2. effeminate
  3. flaccid
  4. innocent, undefiled
  5. pliable, soft, gentle, tender, emollient

Mutation

Mutation of maoth
radical lenition
maoth mhaoth

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) “maoth”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan ‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
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