muc

muc

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

• Wiktionary's coverage of Mbu' terms

• mucã

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

muc m (plural muts)

1. snot, nasal mucus, snivel

• muic (Cois Fharraige)

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

• IPA^(key): /mˠʊk/

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

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “muc”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “muc(c)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “muc”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “muc”, 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 20

• muck

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

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.”)

• coo muigey (“boarhound”)

Manx mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
muc	vuc	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “muc(c)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

muc

1. Alternative form of muk

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

• (Masovia):
  • (Far Masovian) IPA^(key): /ˈmut͡s/

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• Homophone: móc

muc m animal (diminutive mucyk or mucek)

1. (Far Masovian) mutt (any dog)

• 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

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

muc m (plural muci)

1. booger

• mucea

muc n (plural mucuri)

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

• muci
• mucări

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈmuʰk/

muc f

1. pig, sow

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “muc(c)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Colin Mark (2003) “muc”, in The Gaelic-English dictionary, London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 441

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

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

1. cat

Declension of muc
	Singular	Plural
free state	muc	imucwen
construct state	umuc	yimucwen