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Irish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle Irish muiridin.
Noun
muirín f (genitive singular muiríne, nominative plural muiríneacha)
- burden, encumbrance, charge (load, burden)
- (large) family
Declension
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From muir (“sea”) + -ín.
Noun
muirín m (genitive singular muirín, nominative plural muiríní)
- scallop (mollusk)
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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| muirín
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mhuirín
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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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Further reading
- “muirín”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “muirigin”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “muirín”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN