muccfoil

Old Irish

Etymology

From mucc (“pig”) +‎ foil (“sty”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmuk.olʲ/

Noun

muccfoil 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

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Mutation

Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
muccḟoil
also mmuccḟoil after a proclitic		 muccḟoil
pronounced with /ṽ(ʲ)-/		 muccḟoil
also mmuccḟoil 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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