muid

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French muid, from Latin modius. Doublet of modius.

Noun

muid (plural muids)

  1. An old French liquid measure of approximately 274.2 litres.

Anagrams

French

Etymology

From Latin modius.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /mɥi/

Noun

muid m (plural muids)

  1. (historical) hogshead

Further reading

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)

  1. (Connacht, Ulster) we (conjunctive)

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

See also
Irish personal pronouns
Number Person (and gender) Conjunctive
(emphatic)		 Disjunctive
(emphatic)		 Possessive
determiner
SingularFirst mé
(mise)		 mo L
m' before vowel sounds
Second tú
(tusa)1		 thú
(thusa)		 do L
d' before vowel sounds
Third masculine sé
(seisean)		 é
(eisean)		 a L
Third feminine sí
(sise)		 í
(ise)		 a H
PluralFirst muid, sinn
(muidne, muide), (sinne)		 ár E
Second sibh
(sibhse)1		 bhur E
Third siad
(siadsan)		 iad
(iadsan)		 a E

L Triggers lenition E Triggers eclipsis H Triggers h-prothesis

1 Also used as the vocative

The reflexive is formed by adding féin to the relevant pronoun: e.g. "myself" = mé féin, "yourselves" = sibh féin.
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