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muc

See also: Appendix:Variations of "muc"

Aromanian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Latin muccus, from mūcus. Compare Daco-Romanian muc.

Noun

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muc m (plural muts)

  1. snot, nasal mucus, snivel
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Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Irish mucc, from Proto-Celtic *mokkus (compare Welsh moch (“pigs”), Cornish mogh, Breton moc’h).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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muc f (genitive singular muice, nominative plural muca)

  1. pig, swine (also figurative, of a person)
  2. heap; bank, drift
  3. scowl
  4. (military, history) sow

Declension

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Declension of muc

Second declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative muc muca
Vocative a mhuc a mhuca
Genitive muice muc
Dative muc
muic (archaic, dialectal) 		muca

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an mhuc na muca
Genitive na muice na muc
Dative leis an muc
leis an muic (archaic, dialectal)

don mhuc
don mhuic (archaic, dialectal)

leis na muca

Derived terms

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
muc mhuc not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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Manx

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Irish mucc, from Proto-Celtic *mokkus (compare Welsh moch (“pigs”), Cornish mogh, Breton moc’h).

Noun

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muc f (genitive singular muickey or muigey, plural mucyn or muckyn or muick)

  1. pig
    Ta enney ec muc er muc elley. ― Birds of a feather flock together. (literally, “A pig knows another pig.”)

Derived terms

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Mutation

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Manx mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
muc vuc unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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Middle English

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Noun

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muc

  1. Alternative form of muk

Romanian

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Etymology

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Either from its plural form muci, from Latin mucci, or from Latin mūcus, from Proto-Indo-European *mew-k- (“slimy, slippery”).

Noun

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muc m (plural muci)

  1. booger

Declension

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Declension of muc
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) muc mucul (niște) muci mucii
genitive/dative (unui) muc mucului (unor) muci mucilor
vocative mucule mucilor
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Noun

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muc n (plural mucuri)

  1. cigarette butt, stump
  2. wick, candle end
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Scottish Gaelic

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Etymology

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From Old Irish mucc, from Proto-Celtic *mokkus (compare Welsh moch (“pigs”), Cornish mogh, Breton moc’h).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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muc f (genitive singular muice, plural mucan)

  1. pig
  2. sow

Derived terms

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Mutation

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Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
muc mhuc
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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Tarifit

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Etymology

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

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muc m (Tifinagh spelling ⵎⵓⵛ, plural imucwen, feminine tmuccewt)

  1. cat

Declension

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Declension of muc
Singular Plural
Free state muc imucwen
Construct state umuc yimucwen
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