mucc mara

Old Irish

mucc mara ? (genitive muice mara or muca mara)

"sea-pig", porpoise, dolphin.
- 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. 94^a3
  mucc mora glosses delphinus

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

G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “muc(c)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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