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Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Irish monister, from Vulgar Latin *monistērium, from Latin monastērium, from Ancient Greek μοναστήριον (monastḗrion).
Pronunciation
Noun
mainistir f (genitive singular mainistreach, nominative plural mainistreacha)
- monastery, abbey, friary
Declension
Derived terms
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| mainistir
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mhainistir
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not applicable
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| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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References
- ^ “mainistir”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- ^ G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “mainister”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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