móin

From Old Irish móin,^[1] from Proto-Celtic *mānis, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂- (“damp, wet, moist”).

• IPA^(key): /mˠoːnʲ/
• (Kerry) IPA^(key): /mˠoːnʲ/, /mˠuːnʲ/^[2]
• (Cois Fharraige) IPA^(key): /mˠuːnʲ/

móin f (genitive singular móna or mónadh, nominative plural móinte)

1. turf, peat
2. bogland, moor

Standard inflection (third declension)

Alternative inflection (fifth declension)

• cromán móna (“marsh harrier”)

• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “móin”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 493
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “móin”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “móin”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “móin”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024

From Proto-Celtic *mānis, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂- (“damp, wet, moist”).

• IPA^(key): [moːnʲ]

móin f

1. peat moss
2. (occasionally) moor, waste
3. turf, peat

Feminine ī-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	móinL	móinL	mónaiH
Vocative	móinL	móinL	mónaiH
Accusative	mónaiN	móinL	mónaiH
Genitive	mónaeH	mónaeL	mónaeN
Dative	mónaiL	mónaib	mónaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

• Irish: móin
• Manx: moain
• Scottish Gaelic: mòine

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