muintir
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Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Originally the dative singular, from Old Irish muinter.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]muintir f (genitive singular muintire, nominative plural muintireacha)
- family
- (collective) parents
- 1939, Peig Sayers, “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, in Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études; 270) (overall work in French), Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, page 193:
- Ní raibh aoinne cloinne age n-a muinntir ach í agus do mhéaduigh sin uirrim agus grádh na ndaoine don inghean óg so.
- Her parents had no children but her, and that increased the esteem and love of the people for this young girl.
- relative
- people, folk, tribe, nation, band
Usage notes
[edit]- When used by itself, in modern Irish it refers to ‘parents’;
- When used with a following attributive noun, it means ‘folk’ or ‘people’:
- muintir na hÉireann ― the Irish
- muintir na Spáinne ― the Spanish
Declension
[edit]Declension of muintir
Bare forms
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Forms with the definite article
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Synonyms
[edit]- (parents): tuismitheoirí
Derived terms
[edit]- athair muintire m (“the father of a family”)
Mutation
[edit]Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
muintir | mhuintir | not applicable |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
[edit]- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “muinter”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Further reading
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “muintir”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “muinntear”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 500
Old Irish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]muintir
- inflection of muinter:
Mutation
[edit]Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
muintir also mmuintir after a proclitic ending in a vowel |
muintir pronounced with /β̃(ʲ)-/ |
unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
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