meathán

Irish

Alternative forms
  • mathán, meathach, meathánach, meitheán, miothán

Etymology

From Middle Irish methán.

Pronunciation
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈmahanˠ/, /ˈmahan̪ˠ/[1] (corresponding to the form mathán)

Noun

meathán m (genitive singular meatháin, nominative plural meatháin)

  1. anything pliable
  2. sucker (stem growing up from the roots of a plant), twig, sapling
  3. splinter (fragment of material)
    Synonyms: scealp, scealpóg
  4. (crafts) splint (in basketweaving)
  5. weakling
    Synonyms: lagrachán, fágálach

Declension
Declension of meathán

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative meathán meatháin
Vocative a mheatháin a mheathána
Genitive meatháin meathán
Dative meathán meatháin

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an meathán na meatháin
Genitive an mheatháin na meathán
Dative leis an meathán

don mheathán

 leis na meatháin

Derived terms
  • meathán mara (“sea rush”)
  • meathán íochtair (“tiller (shoot of a plant)”)

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

References
  1. Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 67

Further reading
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