mionta

Irish

Etymology

From Middle English mynt (“money, coin”), from Old English mynet (“coin”), from Proto-West Germanic *munit, from Latin monēta (“place for making coins, coined money”), from the temple of Juno Moneta (named for Monēta mother of the Muses), where coins were made, possibly from moneo (“I warn, advise”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈmʲɪn̪ˠt̪ˠə/

Noun

mionta m (genitive singular mionta, nominative plural miontaí)

  1. mint (money-producing building or institution)

Declension
Declension of mionta

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative mionta miontaí
Vocative a mhionta a mhiontaí
Genitive mionta miontaí
Dative mionta miontaí

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an mionta na miontaí
Genitive an mhionta na miontaí
Dative leis an mionta

don mhionta

 leis na miontaí

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

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