moing

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish mong,[2] from Proto-Celtic *mongā (whence also Welsh mwng), a derivative of *monis (“neck”).[3]

Pronunciation
  • (Munster) IPA(key): /mˠiːɲɟ/[4]
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /wĩː/[5] (with permanent lenition, corresponds to the form mhoing)

Noun

moing f (genitive singular moinge, nominative plural moingeanna)

  1. mane (of a horse, lion etc.)
  2. crest (tuft of a bird or other animal)
  3. long hair
  4. growth of vegetation
  5. fen (type of wetland)

Declension
Declension of moing

Second declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative moing moingeanna
Vocative a mhoing a mhoingeanna
Genitive moinge moingeanna
Dative moing moingeanna

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an mhoing na moingeanna
Genitive na moinge na moingeanna
Dative leis an moing

don mhoing

 leis na moingeanna

Derived terms
  • moing mhear (“hemlock”)

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
moing mhoing not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  1. “moing”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “mong”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*moni-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 276
  4. Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 47, page 25
  5. Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 172, page 65

Further reading

Yami

Noun

moing

  1. (anatomy) face
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