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Seabhac
Member Username: Seabhac
Post Number: 27 Registered: 11-2005
| Posted on Tuesday, August 05, 2008 - 01:11 am: |
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Does anyone know what múnóg is? thanks in advance! |
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Antain
Member Username: Antain
Post Number: 16 Registered: 06-2008
| Posted on Tuesday, August 05, 2008 - 04:50 am: |
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Hello, Seabhac. I'm pretty sure that this a word more usually spelled 'mónóg' - a bogberry or cranberry. It also means a droplet or bead of something: 'mónóg allais', for example. Does that make sense in the context of what you're reading? |
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Seabhac
Member Username: Seabhac
Post Number: 28 Registered: 11-2005
| Posted on Tuesday, August 05, 2008 - 09:55 am: |
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It makes quite a good sense. Thanks! |
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Bearn
Member Username: Bearn
Post Number: 600 Registered: 06-2007
| Posted on Wednesday, August 06, 2008 - 07:17 am: |
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I think the change occurs because you had the weak velar n after ó, but today that has mostly gone, so you are left with the strong n, with tends to make it a ú, or so it seems to me sold!
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