mucc mara

Old Irish

Noun

mucc mara ? (genitive muice mara or muca mara)

  1. "sea-pig", porpoise, dolphin.
    • 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. 94a3
      mucc mora glosses delphinus

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
mucc mara
also mmucc mara after a proclitic		 mucc mara
pronounced with /ṽ(ʲ)-/ 		mucc mara
also mmucc mara after a proclitic
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  • “muc(c)” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
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