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Irish
Etymology 1
From Old Irish mesar, messar, from Latin mēnsūra.
Noun
measair f (genitive singular measrach, nominative plural measracha)
- measure
- vessel used as a measure
Declension
Derived terms
- measartha (“moderate, temperate; fair(ly), middling”)
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
measair
- second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of meas
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| measair
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mheasair
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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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Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “measair”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “mes(s)ar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language