meánaosta

Irish

Etymology

From meánaois (“middle age”) +‎ -ta (adjectival suffix) or meán- (“middle”) +‎ aosta (“aged, old”).

Adjective

meánaosta

middle-aged

Synonyms

bunaosta (“fairly old; middle-aged”)

Related terms

Terms related to meánaosta

anaosta (“youthful”, adjective)
breacaosta (“fairly old”, adjective)
bunbhean f (“middle-aged woman”)
bunfhear m (“middle-aged man”)

cianaosta (“long-lived, very old; pristine, primeval”, adjective)
cnagaosta (“advanced in years, elderly”, adjective)
comhaosta (“of the same age; contemporary, coeval”, adjective)

críonaosta (“old and withered”, adjective)
foraosta (“very old”, adjective)
lánaosta (“of full age; rather old”, adjective)

scothaosta (“fairly old, elderly”, adjective)
tonnaosta (“getting on in years”, adjective)
tromaosta (“of advanced age”, adjective)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
meánaosta	mheánaosta	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

"meánaosta" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

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