Reconstruction:Middle Irish/grúac

Old Irish

Etymology

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Noun

*grúac f

1. hair (of the head)

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Synonyms

• folt

Derived terms

• grúacach (“hairy, long-haired, long-maned”)
• grúacach m (“a goblin, a wight, an enchanter”)
• grúacach (“wizard-like, wise”)
• gruacamail (“long-haired”)

Descendants

• Irish: gruaig
• Manx: gruag
• Scottish Gaelic: gruag
• → Faroese: grúkur

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
grúac	grúac pronounced with /ɣ(ʲ)-/	ngrúac
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “grúac”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language