"maoth" meaning in Irish

See maoth in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /mˠeːh/ [Munster], /mˠiː/ [Connacht], /mˠiː/ [Ulster], /mˠɯ̃ː/ [Ulster]
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”). Etymology templates: {{der|ga|mga|máeth}} Middle Irish máeth, {{m|mga|móeth|t=soft, tender, yielding}} móeth (“soft, tender, yielding”), {{der|ga|sga|moíth}} Old Irish moíth, {{der|ga|cel-pro|*moytos|t=tender}} Proto-Celtic *moytos (“tender”), {{der|ga|ine-pro|*meyh₁-||mild, soft}} Proto-Indo-European *meyh₁- (“mild, soft”) Head templates: {{head|ga|adjective|genitive singular masculine|maoith|genitive singular feminine|maoithe||{{{gsf2}}}|plural|maotha||{{{pl2}}}|comparative|maoithe|||head=}} maoth (genitive singular masculine maoith, genitive singular feminine maoithe, plural maotha, comparative maoithe), {{ga-adj|comp=maoithe|gsf=maoithe|gsm=maoith|pl=~a}} maoth (genitive singular masculine maoith, genitive singular feminine maoithe, plural maotha, comparative maoithe) Inflection templates: {{ga-decl-adj|m|aoth|comp=aoithe|gsf=aoithe|gsm=aoith|pl=~a}}, {{ga-mut}} Forms: maoith [genitive, masculine, singular], maoithe [feminine, genitive, singular], maotha [plural], maoithe [comparative], no-table-tags [table-tags], maoth [masculine, nominative, singular], mhaoth [feminine, nominative, singular], maotha [nominative, plural], mhaotha [nominative, plural], mhaoith [masculine, singular, vocative], mhaoth [feminine, singular, vocative], maotha [plural, vocative], mhaoith [genitive, masculine, singular], maoithe [feminine, genitive, singular], maotha [genitive, plural, strong], maoth [genitive, plural, weak], maoth [dative, masculine, singular], mhaoth [dative, masculine, singular], mhaoth [dative, feminine, singular], mhaoith [archaic, dative, feminine, singular], maotha [dative, plural], mhaotha [dative, plural], níos maoithe [comparative], is maoithe [superlative], no-table-tags [table-tags], maoth [mutation, mutation-radical], mhaoth [lenition, mutation], - [eclipsis, mutation]
  1. soft, tender
    Sense id: en-maoth-ga-adj-XckO1c52
  2. weak, enervate
    Sense id: en-maoth-ga-adj-Cr1-1qKR
  3. moist
    Sense id: en-maoth-ga-adj-acejuM4i Categories (other): Irish entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Irish entries with incorrect language header: 4 23 60 12
  4. soppy, sentimental
    Sense id: en-maoth-ga-adj-wWX8OKJC
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: baoth

Alternative forms

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  "called_from": "inflection/2466",
  "msg": "accepted heuristic header: table cell identified as header and given candidate status, AND the cleaned text is in LANGUAGES_WITH_CELLS_AS_HEADERS[Irish]; cleaned text: Dative",
  "path": [
    "maoth"
  ],
  "section": "Irish",
  "subsection": "adjective",
  "title": "maoth",
  "trace": ""
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Irish dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-30 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (210104c and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.