póca

See also: poca, pòca, poça, and роса

Irish

From Middle English poke, from Old Northern French poke (“bag, sack”), from Frankish *pokō (“pouch”), from Proto-Germanic *pukô (“bag, pouch”), from Proto-Indo-European *bewk-, *bew- (“to blow, swell”). Cognate with English poke (“bag”), pouch, and pocket.

póca m (genitive singular póca, nominative plural pócaí)

Declension of póca (fourth declension)

forms with the definite article
	singular	plural
nominative	an póca	na pócaí
genitive	an phóca	na bpócaí
dative	leis an bpóca don phóca	leis na pócaí

Mutated forms of *póca*
radical	lenition	eclipsis
póca	phóca	bpóca

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

^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 121, page 65
^ de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1977) Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge: An Deilbhíocht [The Irish of Cois Fharraige: Accidence] (in Irish), 2nd edition, Institiúid Ard-Léinn Bhaile Átha Cliath [Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies], section 376, page 173
^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 359, page 123

póca

Mutation of *póca*
radical	lenition	nasalization
póca	phóca or unchanged	póca pronounced with /b-/

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

póca f (plural póche) (Masculine: póco)