muccfoil

Old Irish

Etymology

From mucc (“pig”) +‎ foil (“sty”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmuk.olʲ/

Noun

muccḟoil 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 (Wikisource link)
      muccḟoil
      pigsty [translating stabulum porcorum]

Inflection

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:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

Mutation of muccfoil
radical lenition nasalization
muccfoil
also mmuccfoil in h-prothesis environments		 muccfoil
pronounced with /β̃-/		 muccfoil
also mmuccfoil

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

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