mogh

Cornish

Etymology

From Middle Cornish mogh, from Proto-Brythonic *mox, from Proto-Celtic *mokkus.

Pronunciation

Noun

mogh

  1. (collective) pigs, swine
    Synonyms: hoghes, porghow

Derived terms

  • argh vogh (“pig ark”)
  • bugel mogh (“swineherd”)
  • gonis mogh (“pig farming”)
  • kig mogh (“pork, bacon”)
  • krow mogh (“pigsty, pig ark”)
  • losow mogh (“hogweed”)
  • ragomogh (“young boar”)

Mutation

Mutation of mogh
unmutated soft aspirate hard mixed mixed after 'th
mogh vogh unchanged unchanged fogh vogh

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

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish mug (“slave, servant; serf, bondman”).

Noun

mogh m (genitive singular mogha, nominative plural mogha)

  1. (literary) bondman, slave

Declension

Declension of mogh (third declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative mogh mogha
vocative a mhogh a mhogha
genitive mogha mogh
dative mogh mogha
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an mogh na mogha
genitive an mhogha na mogh
dative leis an mogh
don mhogh 		leis na mogha

Derived terms

  • moghach (“slavish, servile”, adjective)

Mutation

Mutated forms of mogh
radical lenition eclipsis
mogh mhogh not applicable

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

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