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Old Irish
Etymology
From míl (“animal”) + cú (“dog, hound”). The term was originally *míluch (as evidenced by the related hypocoristic personal name Míliuc) but the nominative singular was reformed by analogy with the simplex cú.
Noun
mílchú m (nominative plural mílchoin)
- hunting dog, possibly a greyhound
- c. 810, Florence Glosses on Philargyrus, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, p. 48, 21b
.i. horcae, mílchú ɫ conbocail- i.e. lapdog, hunting dog, or watchdog
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