muc

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Translingual

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Symbol

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muc

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

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Aromanian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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

Noun

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muc m (plural muts)

  1. snot, nasal mucus, snivel
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Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

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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

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Derived terms

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
muc mhuc not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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Manx

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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

Noun

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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

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Mutation

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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.

Further reading

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Middle English

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Noun

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muc

  1. Alternative form of muk

Polish

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

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muc m animal (diminutive mucyk or mucek)

  1. (Far Masovian) mutt (any dog)

Further reading

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  • 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

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Etymology

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

Noun

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muc m (plural muci)

  1. booger

Declension

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Noun

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muc n (plural mucuri)

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

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Muc.

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

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muc f

  1. pig, sow

Declension

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Derived terms

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Mutation

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Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical Lenition
muc mhuc
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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Tarifit

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Etymology

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

Noun

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

  1. cat

Declension

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