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Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish púca m (“goblin, sprite”), probably a Germanic borrowing, from Old Norse púki (“fairy spirit”).[1][2]
Pronunciation
Noun
púca m (genitive singular púca, nominative plural púcaí)
- hobgoblin, pooka, puck
- surly, uncommunicative person
Declension
Derived terms
Descendants
Mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| púca
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phúca
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bpúca
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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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References
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “púca”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “púca”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “púca”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “púca”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024
- Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 65