Moysi

Old Irish

Etymology

From Latin Moȳsēs, from Ancient Greek Μωϋσῆς (Mōüsês), from Biblical Hebrew מֹשֶׁה (mōšeʰ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmoːi̯si]

Proper noun

Moysi m (invariable)

1. Moses (biblical patriarch)
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 15^a18

     Do·gníthe a n‑as·bered Moysi ꝉ do·árbas gloria oc tindnacul legis.

     What Moses used to say used to be done, or glory has been displayed in giving the law.

Descendants

• Irish: Maois
• Scottish Gaelic: Maois

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
Moysi also Mmoysi after a proclitic ending in a vowel	Moysi pronounced with /β̃(ʲ)-/	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.