muirn

Irish

Alternative forms

  • múirn

Etymology

From Middle Irish muirn (“loud tumultuous sound; festive mirth, good cheer; favor, affection, esteem”). Cognate with Manx moyrn and Scottish Gaelic mùirn.

Noun

muirn f (genitive singular muirne) (literary)

  1. affection (feeling of love or strong attachment)
  2. (festive) mirth, high spirits, exuberance, gaiety
  3. confused sound, tumult
  4. (obsolete) troop (collection of people)

Declension

Declension of muirn (second declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative muirn
vocative a mhuirn
genitive muirne
dative muirn
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an mhuirn
genitive na muirne
dative leis an muirn
don mhuirn

Synonyms

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of muirn
radical lenition eclipsis
muirn mhuirn 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

  • Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927), “muirn”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 772; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN
  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “muirn”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
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