moing

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish mong, from Proto-Celtic *mongā (whence also Welsh mwng), a derivative of *monis (“neck”).

Pronunciation

Noun

moing f (genitive singular moinge, nominative plural moingeanna)

  1. mane (of a horse, lion etc.)
  2. crest (tuft of a bird or other animal)
  3. long hair
  4. growth of vegetation
  5. fen (type of wetland)

Declension

Declension of moing (second declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative moing moingeanna
vocative a mhoing a mhoingeanna
genitive moinge moingeanna
dative moing moingeanna
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an mhoing na moingeanna
genitive na moinge na moingeanna
dative leis an moing
don mhoing 		leis na moingeanna

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of moing
radical lenition eclipsis
moing mhoing not applicable

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

References

  1. ^ “moing”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “mong”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*moni-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 276
  4. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 47, page 25
  5. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 172, page 65

Further reading

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Noun

moing

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