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Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish medar.[2]
Pronunciation
Noun
meidhir f (genitive singular meidhre)
- gaiety, hilarity, joviality, mirth
- merriment
- pleasantry
Declension
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| meidhir
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mheidhir
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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
- ^ “meidhir”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 medar, medair”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 22, page 13
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