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 (second declension)

forms with the definite article
case	singular	plural
nominative	an mhoing	na moingeanna
genitive	na moinge	na moingeanna
dative	leis an moing don mhoing	leis na moingeanna

Mutated forms of *moing*
radical	lenition	eclipsis
moing	mhoing	not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

^ “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 [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of 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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