different between meath vs westmeath

English

Noun

meath

1. Obsolete form of mead (“the drink”).

Anagrams

• Hatem, Mehta, Thame, thame, thema

Irish

Etymology 1

From Old Irish methaid (“degenerates, declines, fails, is blighted; fails, comes short; blights, causes to decay; enfeebles, intimidates”).

Verb

meath (present analytic meathann, future analytic meathfaidh, verbal noun meath, past participle meata)

1. (intransitive) decline, decay, fail, deteriorate
2. (transitive) waste, fritter away

Conjugation

Etymology 2

From Old Irish meth (“decay, blight, wasting, failure; (moral) feebleness, degeneracy; failure (to fulfil an obligation)”).

Noun

meath m (genitive singular meatha)

1. verbal noun of meath
2. decline, decay, decadence; failure

Declension

Synonyms

• (decline, decay, failure): meathlú

Derived terms

Etymology 3

Noun

meath m (genitive singular meath)

1. Alternative form of meá (“balance, scales; weight, measure; equivalent; equal, match; estimation, judgment; measure, expedient”)

Declension

Mutation

References

• "meath" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “methaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “meth”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language