muccfoil
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Old Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From mucc (“pig”) + foil (“sty”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]muccḟoil f
- pigsty
- 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. 26a1 (Wikisource link)
- 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. 26a1 (Wikisource link)
Inflection
[edit]Feminine g-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | muccfoil | muccfolaigL | muccfolaig |
Vocative | muccfoil | muccfolaigL | muccfoilgea |
Accusative | muccfolaigN | muccfolaigL | muccfoilgea |
Genitive | muccfolach | muccfolach | muccfolachN |
Dative | muccfolaigL | muccfoilgib | muccfoilgib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Mutation
[edit]Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
muccḟoil also mmuccḟoil after a proclitic |
muccḟoil pronounced with /β̃(ʲ)-/ |
unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
[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