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Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
Literally “sea pig”; compare Irish muc mhara (“porpoise”)
Pronunciation
Noun
muc-mhara f (genitive singular muice-mara, plural mucan-mara)
- whale, porpoise
1905, Columban, The Celtic Review, page 285:Dh' eirich e trath la dhe na laithean, agus de chunnaic e air an traigh ach muc-mhara mhor.- He rose early one day, and what he saw on the beach was only a large whale.
Mutation
| Scottish Gaelic mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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| muc-mhara |
mhuc-mhara
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| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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