muc

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Translingual

Symbol

muc

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Mbu'.

See also

Aromanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin muccus, from mūcus. Compare Daco-Romanian muc.

Noun

muc m (plural muts)

  1. snot, nasal mucus, snivel

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish mucc, from Proto-Celtic *mokkus (compare Welsh moch (pigs), Cornish mogh, Breton moc’h).

Pronunciation

Noun

muc f (genitive singular muice, nominative plural muca)

  1. pig, swine (also figurative, of a person)
  2. heap; bank, drift
  3. scowl
  4. (military, history) sow

Declension

Declension of muc (second declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative muc muca
vocative a mhuc a mhuca
genitive muice muc
dative muc
muic (archaic, dialectal)
muca
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an mhuc na muca
genitive na muice na muc
dative leis an muc
leis an muic (archaic, dialectal)
don mhuc
don mhuic (archaic, dialectal)
leis na muca

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of muc
radical lenition eclipsis
muc mhuc not applicable

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

Further reading

Manx

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish mucc, from Proto-Celtic *mokkus (compare Welsh moch (pigs), Cornish mogh, Breton moc’h).

Noun

muc f (genitive singular muickey or muigey, plural mucyn or muckyn or muick)

  1. pig
    Ta enney ec muc er muc elley.Birds of a feather flock together. (literally, “A pig knows another pig.”)

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutation of muc
radical lenition eclipsis
muc vuc unchanged

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

Further reading

Middle English

Noun

muc

  1. alternative form of muk

Polish

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

Noun

muc m animal (diminutive mucyk or mucek)

  1. (Far Masovian) mutt (any dog)

Further reading

  • Antoni Waga (1860) “muc”, in “Abecadłowy spis wyrazów ludowego języka w okolicach Łomży, Wizny i przyległych”, in Kazimierz Władysław Wóycicki, editor, Biblioteka Warszawska (in Polish), volume 2, Warsaw, page 754

Romanian

Etymology

Either from its plural form muci, from Latin mucci, or from Latin mūcus, from Proto-Indo-European *mew-k- (slimy, slippery).

Noun

muc m (plural muci)

  1. booger

Declension

Declension of muc
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative muc mucul muci mucii
genitive-dative muc mucului muci mucilor
vocative mucule mucilor

Noun

muc n (plural mucuri)

  1. cigarette butt, stump
  2. wick, candle end

See also

Scottish Gaelic

Muc.

Etymology

From Middle Irish mucc. Cognates include Irish muc and Manx muc.

Pronunciation

Noun

muc f

  1. pig, sow

Declension

Declension of muc (class IIa feminine noun)
indefinite
singular plural
nominative muc mucan
genitive muice mhuc
dative muic mucan; mucaibh
definite
singular plural
nominative (a') mhuc (na) mucan
genitive (na) muice (nam) muc
dative (a') mhuic (na) mucan; mucaibh
vocative mhuc mhuca

obsolete form, used until the 19th century

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutation of muc
radical lenition
muc mhuc

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

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “muc(c)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Oftedal, M. (1956) A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. III: The Gaelic of Leurbost, Isle of Lewis, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
  3. ^ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1937) The dialect of Barra in the Outer Hebrides, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap

Further reading

  • Colin Mark (2003) “muc”, in The Gaelic-English dictionary, London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 441

Tarifit

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

muc m (Tifinagh spelling ⵎⵓⵛ, plural imucwen, feminine equivalent tmuccewt)

  1. cat

Declension

Inflection of muc
singular plural
free state muc imucwen
construct state umuc yimucwen