Moysi

Old Irish

Etymology

From Latin Moȳsēs, 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. 15a18
      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
Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
Moysi
also Mmoysi after a proclitic		 Moysi
pronounced with /ṽ(ʲ)-/		 unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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