muintir

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Originally the dative singular, from Old Irish muinter.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

muintir f (genitive singular muintire, nominative plural muintireacha)

  1. family
  2. (collective) parents
    • 1939, Peig Sayers, “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, in Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études; 270) (overall work in French), Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, page 193:
      Ní raibh aoinne cloinne age n-a muinntir ach í agus do mhéaduigh sin uirrim agus grádh na ndaoine don inghean óg so.
      Her parents had no children but her, and that increased the esteem and love of the people for this young girl.
  3. relative
  4. people, folk, tribe, nation, band

Usage notes

  • When used by itself, in modern Irish it refers to ‘parents’;
  • When used with a following attributive noun, it means ‘folk’ or ‘people’:
    muintir na hÉireann ― the Irish
    muintir na Spáinne ― the Spanish

Declension

Declension of muintir

Second declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative muintir muintireacha
Vocative a mhuintir a mhuintireacha
Genitive muintire muintireacha
Dative muintir muintireacha

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an mhuintir na muintireacha
Genitive na muintire na muintireacha
Dative leis an muintir

don mhuintir

leis na muintireacha

Synonyms

Derived terms

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
muintir mhuintir 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), “muinter”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading

Old Irish

Pronunciation

Noun

muintir

  1. inflection of muinter:
    1. accusative/dative singular
    2. nominative/vocative/accusative dual

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
muintir
also mmuintir after a proclitic
ending in a vowel 		muintir
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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