cnocc
Old Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *knokkos (“hill”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /knok/
Noun
cnocc m (genitive cnuicc, nominative plural cnuicc)
- hill
- (pathology) lump, ulcer
- 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. 23b1
- cnocc glosses ulcus
- 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. 23b1
Inflection
| Masculine o-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
| Nominative | cnocc | cnoccL | cnuiccL |
| Vocative | cnuicc | cnoccL | cnuccuH |
| Accusative | cnoccN | cnoccL | cnuccuH |
| Genitive | cnuiccL | cnocc | cnoccN |
| Dative | cnuccL | cnoccaib | cnoccaib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Derived terms
- cnoccach
Descendants
- Irish: cnoc
- Manx: cronk
- Scottish Gaelic: cnoc
- ⇒ Middle Irish: cnocán
Mutation
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| cnocc | chnocc | cnocc pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/ |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “cnocc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language