muin

muin

1. instructive plural of muu

• imun, miun, muni

• mone, monne, moon, moune, mowne, moyn, moyne, mune, mwne

From Middle English mone, Old English mōna, from Proto-West Germanic *mānō, from Proto-Germanic *mēnô, from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s (“moon, month”), from *meh₁- (“to measure”).

muin (plural muins)

1. moon
2. lunar month; calendar month

• “muin”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.

From Old Irish muin, from Proto-Celtic *monis, *manyā, from Proto-Indo-European *mon- (“neck”).

muin f (genitive singular muin)

1. (anatomy) back (animal's)
2. top

• Usually used in the phrase 'air muin (“on the back of, on top of, on, upon”):

  air muin eich ― on the back of a horse

  Chuir e seacaid air agus air muin sin còta. ― He put on a jacket and on top of that a coat.

From Old Irish múinid, possibly from Latin moneō (“to remind, advise, teach”), with phonological influence from mūnire (“to defend, protect”).

muin (past mhuin, future muinidh, verbal noun muineadh, past participle muinte)

1. (dated) teach, instruct, educate, rear
2. (dated) show, point out

• (teach, rear): teagaisg, tog
• (show): seall, nochd