muccaidecht

Old Irish

FWOTD – 12 December 2016

Etymology

From muccaid (“swineherd”) +‎ -acht.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmukiðʲext/

Noun

muccaidecht f

1. herding swine; the office of being a swineherd

Inflection

Feminine ā-stem

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	muccaidechtL	muccaidechtL	muccaidechtaH
vocative	muccaidechtL	muccaidechtL	muccaidechtaH
accusative	muccaidechtN	muccaidechtL	muccaidechtaH
genitive	muccaidechtaeH	muccaidechtL	muccaidechtN
dative	muccaidechtL	muccaidechtaib	muccaidechtaib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

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

Mutation

Mutation of muccaidecht

radical	lenition	nasalization
muccaidecht also mmuccaidecht after a proclitic ending in a vowel	muccaidecht 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)aidecht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language