meshtey

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish mescae (“drunkenness, intoxication”), from Proto-Celtic *miskos (“mixed up, confused”), from Proto-Indo-European *meyḱ- (“to mix”). Cognate with Irish meisce.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmeʃtə/

Noun

meshtey f (genitive singular meshtey, no plural)

1. drunkenness, intoxication

   Synonym: meshtallys

Derived terms

• er meshtey (“drunk, intoxicated”)

Mutation

Mutation of meshtey

radical	lenition	eclipsis
meshtey	veshtey	unchanged

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

Further reading

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