mionta

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Irish

Etymology

From Middle English mynt (“money, coin”), from Old English mynet (“coin”), from Proto-West Germanic *munit, from Latin monēta (“place for making coins, coined money”), from the temple of Juno Moneta (named for Monēta mother of the Muses), where coins were made, possibly from moneo (“I warn, advise”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmʲɪn̪ˠt̪ˠə/

Noun

mionta m (genitive singular mionta, nominative plural miontaí)

  1. mint (money-producing building or institution)

Declension

Declension of mionta (fourth declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative mionta miontaí
vocative a mhionta a mhiontaí
genitive mionta miontaí
dative mionta miontaí
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an mionta na miontaí
genitive an mhionta na miontaí
dative leis an mionta
don mhionta 		leis na miontaí

Mutation

Mutated forms of mionta
radical lenition eclipsis
mionta mhionta 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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