meathán

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish methán.

Pronunciation

Noun

meathán m (genitive singular meatháin, nominative plural meatháin)

  1. anything pliable
  2. sucker (stem growing up from the roots of a plant), twig, sapling
  3. splinter (fragment of material)
    Synonyms: scealp, scealpóg
  4. (crafts) splint (in basketweaving)
  5. weakling
    Synonyms: lagrachán, fágálach

Declension

Declension of meathán (first declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative meathán meatháin
vocative a mheatháin a mheathána
genitive meatháin meathán
dative meathán meatháin
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an meathán na meatháin
genitive an mheatháin na meathán
dative leis an meathán
don mheathán 		leis na meatháin

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of meathán
radical lenition eclipsis
meathán mheathán 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. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 67

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