cnocc

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *knukkos (“hill”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /knok/

Noun

cnocc m (genitive cnuicc, nominative plural cnuicc)

1. hill
2. (pathology) lump, ulcer
   • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 23^b1

     cnocc glosses ulcus

Inflection

Masculine o-stem

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	cnocc	cnoccL	cnuiccL
vocative	cnuicc	cnoccL	cnuccuH
accusative	cnoccN	cnoccL	cnuccuH
genitive	cnuiccL	cnocc	cnoccN
dative	cnuccL	cnoccaib	cnoccaib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

• ^H = triggers aspiration
• ^L = triggers lenition
• ^N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

• cnoccach

Descendants

• Irish: cnoc
• Manx: cronk
• ⇒ Middle Irish: cnocán
• Scottish Gaelic: cnoc
• → Welsh: cnwc

Mutation

Mutation of cnocc

radical	lenition	nasalization
cnocc	chnocc	cnocc pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/

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

References

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