muccaid

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• muicid
• mucaid
• muccid

Etymology

From mucc +‎ -id.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmukiðʲ/

Noun

muccaid m

1. swineherd

Inflection

Masculine i-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	muccaid	muccaidL	muccaidiH
Vocative	muccaid	muccaidL	muccaidiH
Accusative	muccaidN	muccaidL	muccaidiH
Genitive	muccadoH, muccadaH	muccadoH, muccadaH	muccaideN
Dative	muccaidL	muccaidib	muccaidib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

• muccaidecht (“the office of a swineherd”)

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
muccaid also mmuccaid after a proclitic ending in a vowel	muccaid pronounced with /β̃(ʲ)-/	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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