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AFAIK, mná is never actually pronounced in this way, it’s either [mena] with an epenthetic schwa or [mra].


At least in Kerry, there's a tendency for /mna:/ (Ó Sé Gaeilge Chorca Dhuibhne, 33) and he explicitly states (32) that both /mn/ and /m'n'/ are legal consonant clusters at the beginning of words, no epenthesis (he gives 'don mbeannacht' as an example for the other, where the vowel is dropped). I'd suspect the rest of Munster to be the same.


Cool, thanks! But word-final -mnt is a slightly different thing anyway.




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