mílchú
Old Irish
Etymology
From míl (“animal”) + cú (“dog, hound”). The term was originally *míluch (as evidenced by the related hypocoristic personal name Míliuc) but the nominative singular was reformed by analogy with the simplex cú.
Noun
mílchú m (nominative plural mílchoin)
- hunting dog, possibly a greyhound
- c. 810, Florence Glosses on Philargyrus, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, p. 48, 21b
- .i. horcae, mílchú ɫ conbocail
- i.e. lapdog, hunting dog, or watchdog
- c. 810, Florence Glosses on Philargyrus, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, p. 48, 21b
Inflection
| Masculine n-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Dual | Plural | |
| Nominative | mílchú | mílchoinL | mílchoin |
| Vocative | mílchú | mílchoinL | mílchonaH |
| Accusative | mílchoinN | mílchoinL | mílchonaH |
| Genitive | mílchon | mílchonL | mílchonN |
| Dative | mílchoinL, mílchúL | mílchonaib | mílchonaib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Descendants
- Middle Irish: mílcú
- Irish: míolchú
- Scottish Gaelic: mialchu
Further reading
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “mílchú”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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