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< maigh + inisMeasaimid gur comhshuíomh é seo de na focail mag + inis de réir litriú na Sean-Ghaeilge nó magh + inis de réir chóras litrithe na Nua-Ghaeilge Clasaicí (a socraíodh do theanga na tréimhse 1200–*c.*1600). (Thuairimigh T.S. Ó Máille in Galvia IX (1962) gur coimriú ar *Muinginis .i. muing ‘overgrowth’ + inis, le comhshamhlú -ng- le -n-, faoi ndear an logainm.)
Is minic a fhaightear leaganacha reoite den tuiseal tabharthach i logainmneacha an lae inniu (m.sh. abha, tabh. abhainn; ceall, tabh. cill; lorga, tabh. lorgain; tulach, tabh. tulaigh, srl.), rud nach taise don logainm faoi chaibidil. Sa chás seo, is é seanleagan an tabharthaigh de mag(h) ná maig (litriú na Sean-Ghaeilge) agus muigh (litriú na Nua-Ghaeilge Clasaicí). Ach i gcaighdeán litrithe Gaeilge an lae inniu, atá in úsáid ón mbliain 1945 i leith, ní athraítear an guta bunaidh -a- i ndíochlaonadh focal mar glas > glais, glaise ná i magh > maigh dá réir sin. Tugtar aitheantas, mar chrostagairtí, do na leaganacha maigh agus gin. u. maighe i bhFoclóir Nua-Ghaeilge Uí Dhónaill cuir i gcás.
I dtaobh an logainm faoi chaibidil, tá a fhios againn gur logainm déshiollach atá sa chaint. In ionad trí shiolla a bheith ann, is amhlaidh a cailleadh an consan -gh- agus táthaíodh na siollaí láir. Go deimhin tá an chuma ar fhoirmeacha traslitrithe den logainm ó dheireadh an 16ú haois amach gur logainm déshiollach ab ea é an uair úd, m.sh. ‘Moynish’ (bl. 1585). Guta fada atá sa siolla tosaigh inniu agus tá an litriú Maínis ar aonghuth leis na hathruithe foghraíochta sin.
Tugadh stádas dlíthiúil don litriú Maínis in An tOrdú Logainmneacha (Ceantair Ghaeltachta) 2004.
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