meain
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Manx
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Irish mían (“mineral, ore”).
Noun
[edit]meain f (genitive singular meainey)
Derived terms
[edit]- co-veain (“alloy”)
- meain ghunney (“gunmetal”)
- meainagh (“metalliferous”)
Mutation
[edit]| Manx mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| meain | veain | unchanged |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 mían”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language