maidin

Finnish

maidin

From Old Irish matan (compare Scottish Gaelic madainn, Manx maddin), from Latin mātūtīnus (“of the morning”, adjective) (compare French matin), from Mātūta (“goddess of morning”).^[2]

maidin f (genitive singular maidine or maidne, nominative plural maidineacha)

Declension of maidin (second declension)

forms with the definite article
	singular	plural
nominative	an mhaidin	na maidineacha
genitive	na maidine	na maidineacha
dative	leis an maidin don mhaidin	leis na maidineacha

Mutated forms of *maidin*
radical	lenition	eclipsis
maidin	mhaidin	not applicable

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

^ “maidin”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 matan, maiten”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931), Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 17, page 11
^ Finck, F. N. (1899), Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 199
^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906), A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 75, page 32

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