cullach

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Old Irish

Pronunciation

Noun

cullach m (genitive cullaig, nominative plural cullaig)

  1. boar
    • 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. 66b25
      cullach glosses porcum
  2. stallion

Inflection

Masculine o-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative cullach cullachL cullaigL
Vocative cullaig cullachL cullachuH
Accusative cullachN cullachL cullachuH
Genitive cullaigL cullach cullachN
Dative cullachL cullachaib cullachaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Irish: collach

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
cullach chullach cullach
pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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