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Old Irish
Noun
mucc mara ? (genitive muice mara or muca mara)
- "sea-pig", porpoise, dolphin.
- 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. 94a3
- mucc mora glosses delphinus
Descendants
Mutation
Mutation of mucc mara
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lenition |
nasalization
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mucc mara
also mmucc mara after a proclitic
ending in a vowel
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mucc mara
pronounced with /β̃(ʲ)-/
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unchanged
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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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