mithid

Irish

From Middle Irish mithid, alteration of Old Irish mithig.^[2] The final /d/ of the modern form may be due to assimilation to the following preposition do.^[3]

mithid f (genitive singular mithide, nominative plural mithidí)

Declension of mithid (second declension)

forms with the definite article
case	singular	plural
nominative	an mhithid	na mithidí
genitive	na mithide	na mithidí
dative	leis an mithid don mhithid	leis na mithidí

Mutated forms of *mithid*
radical	lenition	eclipsis
mithid	mhithid	not applicable

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

^ “mithid”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “mithig”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 405, page 134
^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 90, page 50
^ Mhac an Fhailigh, Éamonn (1968) The Irish of Erris, Co. Mayo: A Phonemic Study, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, section 392, page 155
^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 175, page 67