mucc mara

Old Irish

Noun

mucc mara ? (genitive muice mara or muca mara)

1. "sea-pig", porpoise, dolphin.
   • 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. 94^a3

     mucc mora glosses delphinus

Descendants

• Irish: muc mhara

Mutation

Mutation of mucc mara

radical	lenition	nasalization
mucc mara also mmucc mara after a proclitic ending in a vowel	mucc mara pronounced with /β̃(ʲ)-/	unchanged

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), “muc(c)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language