muccfoil

Old Irish

Etymology

From mucc (“pig”) +‎ foil (“sty”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmuk.olʲ/

Noun

muccḟoil f

1. pigsty
   • 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. 26^a1 (Wikisource link)

     muccḟoil

     pigsty [translating stabulum porcorum]

Inflection

Feminine g-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	muccfoil	muccfolaigL	muccfolaig
Vocative	muccfoil	muccfolaigL	muccfoilgea
Accusative	muccfolaigN	muccfolaigL	muccfoilgea
Genitive	muccfolach	muccfolach	muccfolachN
Dative	muccfolaigL	muccfoilgib	muccfoilgib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

Mutation of muccfoil

radical	lenition	nasalization
muccḟoil also mmuccḟoil after a proclitic ending in a vowel	muccḟoil pronounced with /β̃(ʲ)-/	unchanged

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

References

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