mómint

See also: móimint

Middle Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mōmentum.

Noun

mómint f

1. moment, instant

Descendants

• Irish: móimint
• Scottish Gaelic: mòmaid

Mutation

Middle Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
mómint	mómint 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

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “mómint”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language