moing

Irish

From Old Irish mong,^[2] from Proto-Celtic *mongā (whence also Welsh mwng), a derivative of *monis (“neck”).^[3]

(Munster) IPA^(key): /mˠiːɲɟ/^[4]
(Ulster) IPA^(key): /wĩː/^[5] (with permanent lenition, corresponds to the form mhoing)

moing f (genitive singular moinge, nominative plural moingeanna)

Declension of moing

Bare forms

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

^ “moing”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “mong”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*moni-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 276
^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 47, page 25
^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 172, page 65

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