Meitheamh

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish mithem (“midsummer, June”), from Proto-Celtic *medyo-samīno- (compare Welsh Mehefin , Cornish Metheven, Breton Mezheven). For the individual components, see *medyos (“middle”) and *samos (“summer”).

Pronunciation

(Munster, Galway) IPA^(key): /ˈmʲɛhəvˠ/
(Mayo) IPA^(key): /ˈmʲɛhuː/
(Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈmʲɛhu/

Noun

Meitheamh m (genitive singular Meithimh, nominative plural Meithimh)

June (sixth month of the Gregorian calendar)
middle month

Declension

Declension of Meitheamh (first declension)

bare forms
	singular	plural
nominative	Meitheamh	Meithimh
vocative	a Mheithimh	a Mheitheamha
genitive	Meithimh	Meitheamh
dative	Meitheamh	Meithimh

forms with the definite article
	singular	plural
nominative	an Meitheamh	na Meithimh
genitive	an Mheithimh	na Meitheamh
dative	leis an Meitheamh don Mheitheamh	leis na Meithimh

Mutation

Mutated forms of *Meitheamh*
radical	lenition	eclipsis
Meitheamh	Mheitheamh	not applicable

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

References

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