muccfoil
Old Irish
editEtymology
editFrom mucc (“pig”) + foil (“sty”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editmuccḟoil 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| muccḟoil also mmuccḟoil after a proclitic ending in a vowel |
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