muinseac

Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from English muntjac, from Dutch muntjak, from Sundanese mencek (“small deer”).

Noun

muinseac m (genitive singular muinseaic, nominative plural muinseaic)

1. muntjac

Declension

Declension of muinseac (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative muinseac muinseaic vocative a mhuinseaic a mhuinseaca genitive muinseaic muinseac dative muinseac muinseaic forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an muinseac na muinseaic genitive an mhuinseaic na muinseac dative leis an muinseac don mhuinseac leis na muinseaic

Mutation

Mutated forms of muinseac

radical	lenition	eclipsis
muinseac	mhuinseac	not applicable

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

Further reading

• Parallel corpus at gaois.ie
• IATE terminology at gaois.ie