Old Irish

Alternative forms

• muntar
• montar

Noun

muinter f

1. community, group of persons connected by a common bond, specifically:
   1. family or household (including servants)
      • c. 845, St. Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 30^b11, and
      • c. 875, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 61^d7

        glossing familia

      • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 24^b31

        di muntir Cessair

        de Caesaris domu ("of Caesar's house")

   2. folks
   3. followers
   4. attendants

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Synonyms

• (community) coitchennas, coitreb
• (family) cúallacht, muirer, teglach

Derived terms

• muinterach
• muinteras
• muinterda
• muintremail

Descendants

• Irish: muintir
• Manx: mooinjer
• Scottish Gaelic: muinntir

Mutation

References

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