mucc

Middle Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish mucc, from Proto-Celtic *mokkus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /muk/

Noun

mucc f (genitive muicce, nominative plural mucca)

1. pig, sow
   • c. 1000, “The Tale of Mac Da Thó's Pig”, in Ernst Windisch, editor, Irische Texte, volume 1, published 1800, sections 5–6:

     Marbthair dóib dana in mucc Mic Dathó. Tri fichit gamnach co a biathad saide co cend secht m-bliadan. Tri neim imorro no bíata, co ro lathea ár fer n-hErenn impi. Tucad dóib iarum in mucc ocus xl dam dia tarsnu cen motha in biad ar chena. Mac Dathó fessin icond ḟerdaigsecht. “Mo chen duib,” ar se, “ni dabar samail rissin ataat aige ocus mucca la Laigniu. Atesta desin mairfider dúib imbárach.” “Is maith in mucc,” ar Conchobar. “Is maith imorro”, ar Ailill. “Cinnas rainnfither in mucc a Chonchobair?” ar Ailill.

     Now Mac Dathó’s pig was slaughtered for them. For seven years sixty milch cows supplied its food. On poison however it had been nourished and the massacre of the men of Erin took place through it. Now the pig was brought to them, and forty oxen as a relish, and other food as well. Mac Dathó himself was acting as steward. “Welcome to you,” said he; “the equal to this cannot be found. Bullocks and pigs are not lacking in Leinster. Whatever is lacking now will be slaughtered for you tomorrow.” “The pig is good,” said Conchobar. “It is indeed good,” said Ailill. “How shall the pig be divided, Conchobar?” (source of translation)

Descendants

• Irish: muc
• Manx: muc
• Scottish Gaelic: muc

Mutation

Middle Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
mucc	mucc pronounced with /β̃(ʲ)-/	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• muc

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *mokkus (compare Welsh moch, Cornish mogh, Breton moc’h).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmuk/

Noun

mucc f (genitive muicce, nominative plural mucca)

1. pig, sow
   • 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. 47^b1

     mucc [translating sus]

     pig

Declension

Feminine ā-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	muccL	muiccL	muccaH
Vocative	muccL	muiccL	muccaH
Accusative	muiccN	muiccL	muccaH
Genitive	muicceH	muccL	muccN
Dative	muiccL	muccaib	muccaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

• mucc mara
• muccach
• muccaid
• muccál
• mucclass
• muccullach
• muccḟoil

 

Descendants

• Middle Irish: mucc
  • Irish: muc
  • Manx: muc
  • Scottish Gaelic: muc

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
mucc also mmucc after a proclitic ending in a vowel	mucc pronounced with /β̃(ʲ)-/	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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