móimint

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See also: mómint

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish mómint (compare Scottish Gaelic mòmaid), borrowed from Latin mōmentum.

Noun

móimint f (genitive singular móiminte, nominative plural móimintí)

  1. moment (of time, of force)
    • 1894 March, Peadar Mac Fionnlaoigh, “An rí nach robh le fagháil bháis”, in Irisleabhar na Gaedhilge, volume 1:5, Dublin: Gaelic Union, pages 185–88:
      Nuair do chuir an bhuachaill a chos ar an phlainc, le dul tar an pholl, lúb sí síos san uisge, ar mhodh go robh an t‑ógánach ar tí bheith báithte, gur rinne sé é féin do choisreagadh, ⁊ ar an móimid d’éirigh an phlainc cómh daingean le Gaigeán, ⁊ léim an mada dubh síos ’san pholl as a bhealach.
      When the boy put his foot on the plank to cross the pool, it bent down into the water, so that the youth was on the point of being drowned, till he crossed himself; and in a moment it became as firm as Gaigean, and the black dog jumped down into the pool out of his way.

Declension

Declension of móimint (second declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative móimint móimintí
vocative a mhóimint a mhóimintí
genitive móiminte móimintí
dative móimint móimintí
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an mhóimint na móimintí
genitive na móiminte na móimintí
dative leis an móimint
don mhóimint
leis na móimintí

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of móimint
radical lenition eclipsis
móimint mhóimint not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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