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mesc

English

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Etymology

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Clipping of mescaline

Noun

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mesc (uncountable)

  1. (informal) The drug mescaline.

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Catalan

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Andalusian Arabic مِسْك, from Arabic مِسْك (misk), ultimately from Sanskrit मुष्क (muṣka, “testicle”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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mesc m (uncountable)

  1. musk

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Old Irish

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Etymology

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From Proto-Celtic *miskos, from Proto-Indo-European *miḱ-sḱ-ós, from *meyḱ- (“to mix”).

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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mesc

  1. drunk, intoxicated
  2. mixed, confused

Inflection

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o/ā-stem
Singular Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative mesc mesc mesc
Vocative meisc*
mesc**
Accusative mesc meisc
Genitive meisc meisce meisc
Dative mesc meisc mesc
Plural Masculine Feminine/neuter
Nominative meisc mesca
Vocative mescu
mesca†
Accusative mescu
mesca†
Genitive mesc
Dative mescaib
Notes *modifying a noun whose vocative is different from its nominative

**modifying a noun whose vocative is identical to its nominative
† not when substantivized

Synonyms

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Irish: measc
  • Scottish Gaelic: measg

Verb

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mesc

  1. second-person singular imperative of mescaid

·mesc

  1. third-person singular preterite conjunctive of mescaid

Mutation

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Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
mesc
also mmesc after a proclitic
ending in a vowel 		mesc
pronounced with /β̃(ʲ)-/ 		unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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