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mucc_mara
mucc mara
Old Irish
Noun
mucc mara ? (genitive muice mara or muca mara)
- "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
- 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
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.