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meirg

Irish

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Etymology

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FromOld Irishmeirc,[1]fromProto-Celtic*mergī(“rust, corrosion”),fromProto-Indo-European*merǵ-(“to be wet, withered”).Cognate withWelshmerydd(“stagnant”),Bretonmergl(“rust”),Middle High Germanmurc(“withered”),Russianморо́з(moróz,“frost”)andAlbanianmardhë(“frost”).[2]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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meirgf(genitive singularmeirge)

  1. rust
  2. irritability,crustiness

Declension

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Declension ofmeirg

Second declension

Bare forms (no plural form of this noun)

Case Singular
Nominative meirg
Vocative amheirg
Genitive meirge
Dative meirg

Forms with thedefinite article

Case Singular
Nominative anmheirg
Genitive nameirge
Dative leis anmeirg

donmheirg

Mutation

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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

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  1. ^Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 meirg, meirc”,ineDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^Matasović, Ranko(2009) “*mergī”, inEtymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic(Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden:Brill,→ISBN,page267
  3. ^Sjoestedt, M. L.(1931)Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry(in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux,§ 45,page24
  4. ^Quiggin, E. C.(1906)A Dialect of Donegal,Cambridge University Press,§ 111,page44

Further reading

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Scottish Gaelic

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Etymology

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FromOld Irishmeirc,fromProto-Celtic*mergī(“rust, corrosion”),fromProto-Indo-European*merǵ-(“to be wet, withered”).Cognate withWelshmerydd(“stagnant”),Middle High Germanmurc(“withered”),Russianморо́з(moróz,“frost”)andAlbanianmardhë(“frost”).[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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meirgf(genitive singularmeirge,no plural)

  1. rust,corrosion

Verb

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meirg(pastmheirg,futuremeirgidh,verbal nounmeirg,past participlemeirgte)

  1. rust,corrode
    Tha anrothairagam a'meirgsagharaids.―My bicycle is rusting in the garage.

Derived terms

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Mutation

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Mutationofmeirg
radical lenition
meirg mheirg

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

References

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  1. ^Matasović, Ranko(2009) “*mergī”, inEtymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic(Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden:Brill,→ISBN,page267
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