mógi

See also: mogi

Old Irish

Noun

mógi

1. nominative plural of mug
   • 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. 7^d10

     Mógi sidi uili do Día; acht do·rigénsat in descipuil dechor etarru et déu diib: is hed on ɔsecha-som hic.

     They are all servants to God; but the disciples had made a distinction between them and (made) gods of them; that is what he corrects here.

Usage notes

This form appears only once, at Wb. 7^d10. Both the long mark on the o and the ending -i are unexpected. There is no obvious explanation for the former; the latter is apparently due to attraction to i-stem nouns.