ruccae

Old Irish

Alternative forms

rucce (Würzburg glosses)

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *rukkiyom, a derivative of *rukkos; furthermore from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ- (“red”).

Noun

ruccae n

shame, disgrace
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 24^a30
  .i. bid rucce et mebul doib aní inda·mmóidet.
  i.e. that in which they boast will be a shame and disgrace to them.
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 49^d4
  .i. ní frithalim ruccai for m'anmaim tri foisitin t'anmae-siu, a Dæ.
  i.e. I do not expect shame upon my name through the confession of Your (sg) name, O God.

Inflection

Neuter io-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	ruccae^N	ruccae^L	ruccae^L
vocative	ruccae^N	ruccae^L	ruccae^L
accusative	ruccae^N	ruccae^L	ruccae^L
genitive	ruccai^L	ruccae^L	ruccae^N
dative	ruccu^L	ruccaib	ruccaib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

^H = triggers aspiration
^L = triggers lenition
^N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

Mutation of *ruccae*
radical	lenition	nasalization
ruccae also rruccae in h-prothesis environments	ruccae pronounced with /ɾ-/	ruccae also rruccae

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

Further reading

Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “ruccae”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language