mruig

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *mrogis (compare Welsh bro), from Proto-Indo-European *morǵ- (“frontier, border”). Cognate with Latin margo (“border, edge”), Proto-Germanic *markō (“border, region”), Avestan 𐬨𐬀𐬭𐬆𐬰𐬀‎ (mar^əza, “frontier”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mruɣʲ/

Noun

mruig m

march, borderland
- c. 750, “Aed oll fri andud nane”, verse 2:
  In chlí comras cond credail · ollmas fu thocaid tugaib
  du farclu sech cach ndíne · di Moisten míne mrugaib.
  The mighty balk … great (and) good under roofs of fortune,
  to be chosen beyond any generation of the marches of smooth Moistiu.
country, territory
- c. 850, Book of Armagh, folio 10^b1, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus, vol. 2, p. 263:
  i mmruig tuaithe
  in the territory of the people

Declension

Masculine i-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	mruig	mruig^L	mrugai^H
Vocative	mruig	mruig^L	mrugai^H
Accusative	mruig^N	mruig^L	mrugai^H
Genitive	mrogo^H, mroga^H	mrogo^H, mroga^H	mrugae^N
Dative	mruig^L	mrugaib	mrugaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

Middle Irish: bruig, brug
- Irish: brugh

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
mruig also mmruig after a proclitic	mruig pronounced with /ṽ(ʲ)-/	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.