misg

From Old Irish mescae (“drunkenness, intoxication”) or mescc (“drunk, intoxicated”), from Proto-Indo-European *meik-sko- (“mixed”), from *meik- (“to mix”).

misg f (genitive singular misge)

1. drunkenness, intoxication, inebriation

   Uair air mhisg is uair air uisge. ― One day drunk and one day drinking water.

   (literally "One time on drunkenness and one time on water.")

• daorach
• smùid

• air mhisg (“drunk”)
• fo-mhisg f (“tipsiness”)

• Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• “mescae” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.