See also: moin, Moin, môin, and möin

Irish

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Etymology

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From Old Irish móin,[1] from Proto-Celtic *mānis, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂- (damp, wet, moist).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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móin f (genitive singular móna or mónadh, nominative plural móinte)

  1. turf, peat
  2. bogland, moor

Declension

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Standard inflection (third declension)
Alternative inflection (fifth declension)

Derived terms

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
móin mhóin not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “móin”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 86

Further reading

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Old Irish

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Etymology

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From Proto-Celtic *mānis, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂- (damp, wet, moist).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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móin f

  1. peat moss
  2. (occasionally) moor, waste
  3. turf, peat

Inflection

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Feminine ī-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative móinL móinL mónaiH
Vocative móinL móinL mónaiH
Accusative mónaiN móinL mónaiH
Genitive mónaeH mónaeL mónaeN
Dative mónaiL mónaib mónaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

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  • Irish: móin
  • Manx: moain
  • Scottish Gaelic: mòine

Mutation

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

Further reading

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