mescaid
Old Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *miskati, from Proto-Indo-European *miḱ-sḱ-éti, from *meyḱ-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈmʲeskɨðʲ]
Verb
mescaid (verbal noun mescad)
- to mix
- c. 700 Immram Brain, published in The Voyage of Bran son of Febal to the land of the living (1895, London: David Nutt), pp. 1-35, edited and with translations by Kuno Meyer and Alfred Nutt, stanza 16
- Mescid fairggi co mbí fuil.
- He stirs the sea until it is blood.
- c. 700 Immram Brain, published in The Voyage of Bran son of Febal to the land of the living (1895, London: David Nutt), pp. 1-35, edited and with translations by Kuno Meyer and Alfred Nutt, stanza 16
- to dip, to plunge
- to confuse
Inflection
Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
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Further reading
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “mescaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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