muccullach
Appearance
Old Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From mucc (“pig”) + cullach (“boar”).
Noun
[edit]muccullach m (nominative plural muccullaig)
Inflection
[edit]Masculine o-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | muccullach | muccullachL | mucculaigL |
Vocative | mucculaig | muccullachL | muccullachuH |
Accusative | muccullachN | muccullachL | muccullachuH |
Genitive | mucculaigL | muccullach | muccullachN |
Dative | muccullachL | muccullachaib | muccullachaib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Mutation
[edit]radical | lenition | nasalization |
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muccullach also mmuccullach after a proclitic ending in a vowel |
muccullach 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.
Further reading
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “muc(c)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language