Moysi

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /moːˈyː.siː/, [moːˈyːs̠iː] or IPA^(key): /moˈyː.siː/, [moˈyːs̠iː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /moˈi.si/, [moˈiːs̬i]

Proper noun

Mō̆ȳsī

1. genitive/dative singular of Mō̆ȳsēs

Old Irish

Etymology

From Latin Mō̆ȳsēs, from Ancient Greek Μωϋσῆς (Mōüsês), from Biblical Hebrew מֹשֶׁה (mōšeʰ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmoːi̯si]

Proper noun

Moysi m (invariable)

1. Moses (biblical patriarch)
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 15^a18

     Do·gníthe a n‑as·bered Moysi ꝉ do·árbas gloria oc tindnacul legis.

     What Moses used to say used to be done, or glory has been displayed in giving the law.

Descendants

• Irish: Maois
• Scottish Gaelic: Maois

Mutation

Mutation of Moysi

radical	lenition	nasalization
Moysi also Mmoysi after a proclitic ending in a vowel	Moysi pronounced with /β̃(ʲ)-/	unchanged

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