mucc mara

Old Irish

Noun

mucc mara ? (genitive muice mara or muca mara)

  1. "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

Descendants

  • Irish: muc mhara

Mutation

Mutation of mucc mara
radical lenition nasalization
mucc mara
also mmucc mara in h-prothesis environments		 mucc mara
pronounced with /β̃-/		 mucc mara
also mmucc mara

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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