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
- Dumi, Mudi
French
Etymology
From Latin modius.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mɥi/
Audio (file)
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)
- (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
- sinn (disjunctive)
See also
Irish personal pronouns
| Number | Person (and gender) | 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 masculine | sé (seisean) | é (eisean) | a L | |
| Third feminine | sí (sise) | í (ise) | a H | |
| Third neuter | — | ea | — | |
| Plural | First | 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.