méith

See also: meith

Irish

From Old Irish méth (“plump, fat”),^[2] from Proto-Celtic *meitos (whence Welsh mwyd (“soaking, moistening”)). The noun is a substantivization of the adjective.

méith (genitive singular feminine méithe, plural méithe, comparative méithe)

rich (having an intense fatty or sugary flavour)
fat, corpulent, plump
Synonym: ramhar
rich (productive), fertile, fruitful (favorable to growth)
Synonyms: borrúil, torthúil
juicy (of meat)
lush (dense, teeming with life), succulent
mellow (soft or tender by reason of ripeness; having a tender pulp)
(nominalized, feminine) fat (specialized animal tissue)
Synonyms: saill, méathras

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Mutated forms of *méith*
radical	lenition	eclipsis
méith	mhéith	not applicable

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

^ “méith”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “méth”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 94, page 37