cnocc

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Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *knukkos (“hill”).

Pronunciation

Noun

cnocc m (genitive cnuicc, nominative plural cnuicc)

  1. hill
  2. (pathology) lump, ulcer
    • 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. 23b1
      cnocc glosses ulcus

Inflection

Masculine o-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative cnocc cnoccL cnuiccL
Vocative cnuicc cnoccL cnuccuH
Accusative cnoccN cnoccL cnuccuH
Genitive cnuiccL cnocc cnoccN
Dative cnuccL cnoccaib cnoccaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Irish: cnoc
  • Manx: cronk
  • ⇒ Middle Irish: cnocán
  • Scottish Gaelic: cnoc
  • → Welsh: cnwc

Mutation

Mutation of cnocc
radical lenition nasalization
cnocc chnocc cnocc
pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/

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

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