muinter

Old Irish

From Proto-Celtic *moniterā, from *monis (“protection, patronage”). Alternatively a loanword from Latin monastērium, from Ancient Greek μοναστήριον (monastḗrion, “community of monks”), but both the semantic change and the loss of s are difficult to explain under that hypothesis.^[1]

muinter f

For quotations using this term, see Citations:muinter.

Feminine ā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	muinter^L	muintir^L	muintera^H
Vocative	muinter^L	muintir^L	muintera^H
Accusative	muintir^N	muintir^L	muintera^H
Genitive	muintire^H	muinter^L	muinter^N
Dative	muintir^L	muinteraib	muinteraib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

Mutation of *muinter*
radical	lenition	nasalization
muinter also mmuinter after a proclitic ending in a vowel	muinter pronounced with /β̃(ʲ)-/	unchanged

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

^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*moni- ‘protection, patronage’”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 276