Middle Irish

American  

noun

1. the Irish language of the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries.

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Middle Irish British  

noun

1. Irish Gaelic from about 1100 to about 1500

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Example Sentences

The Middle Irish place name for the neighbouring Dowth passage tomb, Fertae Chuile, is based on this lore and can be translated as "Hill of Sin".

From BBC • Jun. 17, 2020

In Middle Irish the declensions and conjugations are much simplified and the neuter gender is given up in substantives.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various

Dr Douglas Hyde gives it as his opinion that the exceedingly numerous metres known in Middle Irish had become restricted to a couple of dozen, and these nearly all heptasyllabic.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various

The language in which the huge miscellaneous codices enumerated above are contained is called by the general name of Middle Irish, which is a very wide term.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various

By the beginning of the Middle Irish period a good part of the cumbrous Old Irish verb-system had become obsolete, and texts which were at all faithfully copied had to be plentifully supplied with glosses.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various