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

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
muccaidecht also mmuccaidecht after a proclitic ending in a vowel	muccaidecht pronounced with /β̃(ʲ)-/	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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