meisce

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Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish mescae (“drunkenness, intoxication”), from Proto-Celtic *miskos (“mixed up, confused”), from Proto-Indo-European *meyḱ- (“to mix”).

Pronunciation

Noun

meisce f (genitive singular meisce)

  1. drunkenness, intoxication

Declension

Declension of meisce (fourth declension, no plural)
bare forms
case singular
nominative meisce
vocative a mheisce
genitive meisce
dative meisce
forms with the definite article
case singular
nominative an mheisce
genitive na meisce
dative leis an meisce
don mheisce

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of meisce
radical lenition eclipsis
meisce mheisce not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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