minúit

See also: minuit

Middle Irish

Etymology

From Latin minūtus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmʲinuːdʲ/

Noun

minúit f

1. a period of six minutes (a tenth of an hour)

Descendants

• Irish: mionóid

Mutation

Mutation of minúit

radical	lenition	nasalization
minúit	minúit pronounced with /β̃(ʲ)-/	unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Middle Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “minúit”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language