muccullach

Old Irish

Etymology

From mucc (“pig”) +‎ cullach (“boar”).

Noun

muccullach m (nominative plural muccullaig)

1. boar

Inflection

Masculine o-stem

	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:

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

Mutation

Mutation of muccullach

radical	lenition	nasalization
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

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “muc(c)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language