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Old Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *meleti, from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂-.
Verb
meilid
- to grind, to crush
- to sharpen
Inflection
Simple, class B I present, t preterite, é future, a subjunctive
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Passive sg.
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melim
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*melair
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meiles
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melar
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milt
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ro·miult
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ro·milt
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·méla
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·mélat
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| Present subjunctive
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·mela
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| Past subjunctive
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meilid
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mleth
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| Past participle
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| Verbal of necessity
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Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “meilid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Pedersen, Holger (1913) Vergleichende Grammatik der keltischen Sprachen (in German), volume II, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 576