muccfoil

Old Irish

Etymology

From mucc (pig) + foil (sty).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmuk.olʲ/

Noun

muccḟoil f

  1. 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
      muccfoil glosses stabulum porcorum

Inflection

Feminine k-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative muccfoil muccfolaigL muccfolaig
Vocative muccfoil muccfolaigL muccfolacha
Accusative muccfolaigN muccfolaigL muccfolacha
Genitive muccfolach muccfolach muccfolachN
Dative muccfolaigL muccfolachaib muccfolachaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
muccḟoil
also mmuccḟoil after a proclitic
muccḟoil
pronounced with /ṽ(ʲ)-/
unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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