mucca

Italian

Etymology

Uncertain, possibly a merging of muggire and vacca, or from Alemannic German Mugg. Compare English moo cow.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmuk.ka/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ukka
  • Hyphenation: mùc‧ca

Noun

mucca f (plural mucche)

  1. a milk-cow, milch cow
    Synonym: vacca

Middle Irish

Noun

mucca

  1. nominative/vocative/accusative plural of mucc

Mutation

Middle Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
muccamucca
pronounced with /ṽ(ʲ)-/
unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Old Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmuka/

Noun

mucca

  1. nominative/vocative/accusative plural of mucc

Mutation

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