muid
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French muid, from Latin modius. Doublet of modius and mud.
Noun
muid (plural muids)
- An old French liquid measure of approximately 274.2 litres.
Anagrams
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
muid m (plural muids)
- (historical) hogshead
Further reading
- “muid”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
Irish
Etymology
From the first-person plural present verb ending -mid reanalyzed as a subject pronoun.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mˠɪdʲ/
Pronoun
muid (emphatic form muide, muidne)
Usage notes
- The use of muid as the subject of analytic verb forms is accepted in the written standard as an alternative to synthetic first-person plural verb forms. It is found in colloquial usage in Ulster and parts of Connacht.
Synonyms
- sinn (disjunctive)
See also
| person | conjunctive (emphatic) |
disjunctive (emphatic) |
possessive determiner | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| singular | first | mé (mise) |
mo L m' before vowel sounds | ||
| second | tú (tusa)1 |
thú (thusa) |
do L d' before vowel sounds | ||
| third | m | sé (seisean) |
é (eisean) |
a L | |
| f | sí (sise) |
í (ise) |
a H | ||
| n | — | ea | — | ||
| plural | first | muid, sinn (muidne, muide), (sinne) |
ár E | ||
| second | sibh (sibhse)1 |
bhur E | |||
| third | siad (siadsan) |
iad (iadsan) |
a E | ||