medón

See also: Medon

Old Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mediānus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmʲe.ðoːn/

Noun

medón m (genitive medóin, nominative plural medóin)

  1. middle

Inflection

Masculine o-stem
singular dual plural
nominative medón medónL medóinL
vocative medóin medónL medónuH
accusative medónN medónL medónuH
genitive medóinL medón medónN
dative medónL medónaib medónaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Quotations

  • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 27d19
    Is lérithir inso no·nguidim-se Día n‑erutsu amal rot·gád-sa im anad i nEphis, sech ropo léir són. Aliter adit ubi dicit hoc praeceptum tibi commendo filii Timothe et is medón testimin a fil etarru.
    As diligently [is this] that I pray to God for you sg as I have besought you about staying in Ephesus, although this was diligent. […] what is between them is the middle of a text passage.

Derived terms

  • airmedón (“the very middle, centre”)
  • inmedón (“middle”)
  • medónach (“central, middle, intermediate”)
  • medóndae (“intermediate; medium”)

Descendants

  • Irish: meán
  • Manx: mean
  • Scottish Gaelic: meadhan
  • →? Welsh: mewn

Mutation

Mutation of medón
radical lenition nasalization
medón
also mmedón in h-prothesis environments		 medón
pronounced with /β̃ʲ-/		 medón
also mmedón

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

Further reading

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