muinter
Old Irish
Alternative forms
Noun
muinter f
- community, group of persons connected by a common bond, specifically:
- family or household (including servants)
- c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 30b11, and
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 61d7
- glossing familia
- 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. 24b31
- di muntir Cessair
- de Caesaris domu ("of Caesar's house")
- di muntir Cessair
- folks
- followers
- attendants
- family or household (including servants)
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Synonyms
- (community) coitchennas, coitreb
- (family) cúallacht, muirer, teglach
Derived terms
Descendants
- Irish: muintir
- Manx: mooinjer
- Scottish Gaelic: muinntir
Mutation
Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
muinter also mmuinter after a proclitic ending in a vowel |
muinter pronounced with /β̃(ʲ)-/ |
unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “muinter”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language