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Webster 1913 Edition


Mun

Mun

,
Noun.
[See
Mouth
.]
The mouth.
[Obs.]
One a penny, two a penny, hot cross buns,
Butter them and sugar them and put them in your
muns
.
Old Rhyme.
Halliwell.

Definition 2024


mún

mún

See also: mun, mùn, mūn, mủn, Mun., müň, and múŋ

Irish

Noun

mún m (genitive singular múin)

  1. verbal noun of mún
  2. urine
Declension
Synonyms
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Irish múnaid (makes water, pisses).

Verb

mún (present analytic múnann, future analytic múnfaidh, verbal noun mún, past participle múnta)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) urinate, pee
Conjugation

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
mún mhún unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  • "mún" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
  • mún” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
  • múnaid” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic [Term?], from Proto-Indo-European *mew-, *mū-. Possibly cognate with Latin mūtō (****).

Noun

mún m

  1. urine

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Related terms

Descendants

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
mún
also mmún after a proclitic
mún
pronounced with /ṽ(ʲ)-/
mún
also mmún after a proclitic
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  • mún” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.