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Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Irish menad. Cognate with Scottish Gaelic minidh and Manx mennee.
Pronunciation
Noun
meana m (genitive singular meana, nominative plural meanaí)
- awl, bodkin (pointed tool)
Declension
Descendants
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| meana
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mheana
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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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References
Further reading
- “meana”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “menad”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “meana”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 473
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “meana”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Ladino
Etymology
From Turkish meyhane, from Persian میخانه (meyxâne), compound of Persian می (may, “wine”) and Persian خانه (xâne, “house”).
Noun
meana f (Latin spelling)
- cabaret, tavern
Further reading
- Joseph Nehama, Jesús Cantera (1977) “meaná, meané”, in Dictionnaire du Judéo-Espagnol (in French), Madrid: CSIC, →ISBN, page 353