miadh

See also: mì-àdh and mí-ádh

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish míad (“honour, dignity, elevation; rank, status”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mʲiə/

Noun

miadh m (genitive singular miadha)

1. (literary) honor, dignity, distinction

Declension

Declension of miadh (third declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative miadh vocative a mhiadh genitive miadha dative miadh forms with the definite article case singular nominative an miadh genitive an mhiadha dative leis an miadh don mhiadh

Derived terms

• miadhach (“honourable, distinguished”, adjective)
• miadhaigh (“honour, dignify”, verb)

Mutation

Mutated forms of miadh

radical	lenition	eclipsis
miadh	mhiadh	not applicable

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

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “míad”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “miadh”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN