maoth

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish máeth, móeth (“soft, tender, yielding”), from Old Irish moíth,[2] from Proto-Celtic *moytos (“tender”), from Proto-Indo-European *meyh₁- (“mild, soft”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

maoth (genitive singular masculine maoith, genitive singular feminine maoithe, plural maotha, comparative maoithe)

  1. soft, tender
  2. weak, enervate
  3. moist
  4. soppy, sentimental

Declension
Declension of maoth
Singular Plural (m/f)
Positive Masculine Feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
Nominative maoth mhaoth maotha;
mhaotha²
Vocative mhaoith maotha
Genitive maoithe maotha maoth
Dative maoth;
mhaoth¹		 mhaoth;
mhaoith (archaic)		 maotha;
mhaotha²
Comparative níos maoithe
Superlative is maoithe

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

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

References
  1. “maoth”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “maeth, moeth”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 172, page 65

Further reading

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish máeth, móeth (“soft, tender, yielding”), from Old Irish moíth, from Proto-Celtic *moytos (“tender”), from Proto-Indo-European *meyh₁- (“mild, soft”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /mɯː/

Adjective

maoth (comparative maoithe)

  1. demulcent, moistened
  2. effeminate
  3. flaccid
  4. innocent, undefiled
  5. pliable, soft, gentle, tender, emollient

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

Further reading
  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “maoth”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
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