muin

See also: mùin and múin

Finnish

Pronoun

muin

1. instructive plural of muu

Anagrams

• imun, miun, muni

Scots

Alternative forms

• mone, monne, moon, moune, mowne, moyn, moyne, mune, mwne

Etymology

From Middle English mone, Old English mōna, from Proto-West Germanic *mānō, from Proto-Germanic *mēnô, from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s (“moon, month”), from *meh₁- (“to measure”).

Noun

muin (plural muins)

1. moon
2. lunar month; calendar month

Further reading

• “muin” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology 1

From Old Irish muin, from Proto-Celtic *monis, *manyā, from Proto-Indo-European *mon- (“neck”).

Noun

muin f (genitive singular muin)

1. (anatomy) back (animal's)
2. top

Usage notes

• Usually used in the phrase 'air muin (“on the back of, on top of, on, upon”):

  air muin eich ― on the back of a horse

  Chuir e seacaid air agus air muin sin còta. ― He put on a jacket and on top of that a coat.

Etymology 2

From Old Irish múinid, possibly from Latin moneō (“to remind, advise, teach”), with phonological influence from mūnire (“to defend, protect”).

Verb

muin (past mhuin, future muinidh, verbal noun muineadh, past participle muinte)

1. (dated) teach, instruct, educate, rear
2. (dated) show, point out

Synonyms

• (teach, rear): teagaisg, tog
• (show): seall, nochd