puca
Irish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpˠʊkə/
Noun
puca m (genitive singular puca, nominative plural pucaí)
- Cois Fharraige form of paca
Declension
Declension of puca
Fourth declension
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Bare forms
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Forms with the definite article
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Mutation
| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| puca | phuca | bpuca |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
- "puca" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *pūkô (“a goblin, spook”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pāuǵ-, *(s)pāug- (“brilliance, spectre”). Cognate with Old Norse púki (dialectal Swedish puke (“devil”)), Middle Low German spōk, spūk (“apparition, ghost”), Middle Dutch spooc (“apparition, ghost”) (Dutch spook), Middle High German gespük (“a haunting”) (German Spuk). More at spook.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpuːkɑ/
Noun
pūca m
Declension
Declension of puca (weak)
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | pūca | pūcan |
| accusative | pūcan | pūcan |
| genitive | pūcan | pūcena |
| dative | pūcan | pūcum |
Related terms
Descendants
Serbo-Croatian
Noun
pȕca f (Cyrillic spelling пу̏ца)
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