móin

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See also: moin, Moin, môin, and möin

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish móin,[1] from Proto-Celtic *mānis, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂- (“damp, wet, moist”).

Pronunciation

Noun

móin f (genitive singular móna or mónadh, nominative plural móinte)

  1. turf, peat
  2. bogland, moor

Declension

Standard inflection (third declension)
Declension of móin

Third declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative móin móinte
Vocative a mhóin a mhóinte
Genitive móna móinte
Dative móin móinte

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an mhóin na móinte
Genitive na móna na móinte
Dative leis an móin

don mhóin

leis na móinte
Alternative inflection (fifth declension)
Declension of móin

Fifth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative móin móinte
Vocative a mhóin a mhóinte
Genitive mónadh móinte
Dative móin
mónaidh (archaic, dialectal) 		móinte

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an mhóin na móinte
Genitive na mónadh na móinte
Dative leis an móin
leis an mónaidh (archaic, dialectal)

don mhóin
don mhónaidh (archaic, dialectal)

leis na móinte

Derived terms

Mutation

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

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “móin”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 86

Further reading

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *mānis, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂- (“damp, wet, moist”).

Pronunciation

Noun

móin f

  1. peat moss
  2. (occasionally) moor, waste
  3. turf, peat

Inflection

Feminine ī-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative móinL móinL mónaiH
Vocative móinL móinL mónaiH
Accusative mónaiN móinL mónaiH
Genitive mónaeH mónaeL mónaeN
Dative mónaiL mónaib mónaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

  • Irish: móin
  • Manx: moain
  • Scottish Gaelic: mòine

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
móin
also mmóin after a proclitic
ending in a vowel 		móin
pronounced with /β̃(ʲ)-/ 		unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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