mescaid

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *miskati, from Proto-Indo-European *miḱ-sḱ-éti, from *meyḱ-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmʲes.kəðʲ/
  • (Blasse) [ˈmʲes.kɪðʲ]
  • (Griffith) [ˈmʲes.kɨðʲ]

Verb

mescaid (verbal noun mescad)

1. 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.

2. to dip, to plunge
3. to confuse

Inflection

Simple, class A I present, s preterite, f future, a subjunctive

		active						passive
		singular			plural			singular	plural
		1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
present indicative	abs.			mescid, mescaid; mescthus (with suffixed pronoun -us)				mescthair
	conj.					·mescid, ·mescaid		·mescthar
	rel.							mescthar
imperfect indicative				·mescad
preterite	abs.			mescais
	conj.	·mescus	·mescais	·mesc, ·mescc			·mescsat	·mescad	·mesctha
	rel.
perfect	deut.						ro·mescsat		ro·mesctha
	prot.
future	abs.						mescfait
	conj.								·mescfaiter
	rel.								mescfaiter
conditional
present subjunctive	abs.		mescae	mescid, mescaid				mescthair
	conj.		·mescae			·mescid, ·mescaid		·mescthar
	rel.							mescthar
past subjunctive				·mescad
imperative			mesc, mescc	mescad		mescid, mescaid
verbal noun		mescad
past participle		mesctha
verbal of necessity

Derived terms

• con·mesca

Related terms

• mescc

Descendants

• Irish: measc
• Manx: mestey
• Scottish Gaelic: measg

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “mescaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language