meirg

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Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish meirc,[1] from Proto-Celtic *mergī (“rust, corrosion”), from Proto-Indo-European *merǵ- (“to be wet, withered”). Cognate with Welsh merydd (“stagnant”), Breton mergl (“rust”), Middle High German murc (“withered”), Russian моро́з (moróz, “frost”) and Albanian mardhë (“frost”).[2]

Pronunciation

Noun

meirg f (genitive singular meirge)

  1. rust
  2. irritability, crustiness

Declension

Declension of meirg

Second declension

Bare forms (no plural form of this noun)

Case Singular
Nominative meirg
Vocative a mheirg
Genitive meirge
Dative meirg

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular
Nominative an mheirg
Genitive na meirge
Dative leis an meirg

don mheirg

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
meirg mheirg not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 meirg, meirc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*mergī”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 267
  3. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 45, page 24
  4. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 111, page 44

Further reading

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish meirc, from Proto-Celtic *mergī (“rust, corrosion”), from Proto-Indo-European *merǵ- (“to be wet, withered”). Cognate with Welsh merydd (“stagnant”), Middle High German murc (“withered”), Russian моро́з (moróz, “frost”) and Albanian mardhë (“frost”).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

meirg f (genitive singular meirge, no plural)

  1. rust, corrosion

Verb

meirg (past mheirg, future meirgidh, verbal noun meirg, past participle meirgte)

  1. rust, corrode
    Tha an rothair agam a' meirg sa gharaids. ― My bicycle is rusting in the garage.

Derived terms

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
meirg mheirg
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*mergī”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 267
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