mucár

Irish

Etymology

From muc (“pig”) +‎ ár (“slaughter”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmˠʊkˌɑːɾˠ/

Noun

mucár m (genitive singular mucáir)

1. (obsolete) pig-slaughter

Inflection

Declension of mucár (first declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative mucár vocative a mhucáir genitive mucáir dative mucár forms with the definite article case singular nominative an mucár genitive an mhucáir dative leis an mucár don mhucár

Mutation

Mutated forms of mucár

radical	lenition	eclipsis
mucár	mhucár	not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern 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), “muc(c)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language