cullach

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Old Irish

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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cullach m (genitive cullaig, nominative plural cullaig)

  1. boar
    • 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. 66b25
      cullach glosses porcum
  2. stallion

Inflection

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Masculine o-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative cullach cullachL cullaigL
Vocative cullaig cullachL cullachuH
Accusative cullachN cullachL cullachuH
Genitive cullaigL cullach cullachN
Dative cullachL cullachaib cullachaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Irish: collach
  • Scottish Gaelic: cullach

Mutation

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Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
cullach chullach cullach
pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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Scottish Gaelic

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Irish cullach (boar; stallion).[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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cullach m (genitive singular cullaich, plural cullaich)

  1. boar or other mature male unneutered animal (cat, stallion, seal etc.)
  2. yearling calf
  3. eunuch
  4. fat heifer

Derived terms

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Mutation

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

References

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

Further reading

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  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “cullach”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “cullach”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language[2], Stirling, →ISBN