airmheán

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish airmedón (“the very middle, centre”), from medón (“middle, centre”) (modern meán).

Noun

airmheán m (genitive singular airmheáin, nominative plural airmheáin)

1. epicentre
2. (statistics) median

Declension

Declension of airmheán

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative airmheán airmheáin Vocative a airmheáin a airmheána Genitive airmheáin airmheán Dative airmheán airmheáin

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an t-airmheán na hairmheáin Genitive an airmheáin na n-airmheán Dative leis an airmheán don airmheán leis na hairmheáin

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Eclipsis	with h-prothesis	with t-prothesis
airmheán	n-airmheán	hairmheán	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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