mómint

See also: móimint

Middle Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mōmentum.

Noun

mómint f

1. moment, instant

Descendants

• Irish: móimint
• Scottish Gaelic: mòmaid

Mutation

Mutation of mómint

radical	lenition	nasalization
mómint	mómint pronounced with /β̃(ʲ)-/	unchanged

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

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “mómint”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language