mearrdhánta

rash, 3915. breitheamhnas m., rash judgment, 904. 1748, -54. [Contrast meardhána, FF, 1, 10, 40 (breitheamhnas m.) ; DBr, 11, 136 ; LF, 215 (-an-). Later meargánta, e.g. GJ, xiv, 701 a.] Hence meardhántas, ‘ juyzio loco,’ 2635. [Sim. meardhántas, BH, 225 ; but meardhánacht, Gearnon, 224, and (spd. -an-) LF 181, 193, 232, etc. Stapleton writes go mearaganta, ' temere,’ 70, and mearradhantacht, ‘ temeritas,’ 146. LF, 2, has meargantacht. For the adventitious -t- cf. mídhiongmhálta, -tas.]