meaits

Irish

Etymology

From English match.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mʲatʲʃ/

Noun

meaits m (genitive singular meaits, nominative plural meaitseanna)

match (device to make fire)
Synonyms: lasán, cipín

Declension

Declension of meaits

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	meaits	meaitseanna
Vocative	a mheaits	a mheaitseanna
Genitive	meaits	meaitseanna
Dative	meaits	meaitseanna

Forms with the definite article

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an meaits	na meaitseanna
Genitive	an mheaits	na meaitseanna
Dative	leis an meaits don mheaits	leis na meaitseanna

Mutation

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

Further reading

“meaits”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “meaits”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 50

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