mainistir

Irish

Alternative forms
  • mainestir, mainisdear, mainisdir, mainistear (obsolete)[1]

Etymology

From Old Irish monister, from Vulgar Latin *monistērium, from Latin monastērium,[2] from Ancient Greek μοναστήριον (monastḗrion).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈmˠanʲəʃtʲəɾʲ/

Noun

mainistir f (genitive singular mainistreach, nominative plural mainistreacha)

  1. monastery, abbey, friary

Declension
Declension of mainistir

Fifth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative mainistir mainistreacha
Vocative a mhainistir a mhainistreacha
Genitive mainistreach mainistreacha
Dative mainistir
mainistrigh (archaic, dialectal)		 mainistreacha

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an mhainistir na mainistreacha
Genitive na mainistreach na mainistreacha
Dative leis an mainistir
leis an mainistrigh (archaic, dialectal)

don mhainistir
don mhainistrigh (archaic, dialectal)

 leis na mainistreacha

Derived terms
  • Baile na Mainistreach (“Newtownabbey”)
  • Mainistir Fhear Maí (“Fermoy”)
  • Mainistir na Corann (“Midleton”)

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

References
  1. “mainistir”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “mainister”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading
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