mucca

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Italian

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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mucca f (plural mucche)

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

Middle Irish

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Noun

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mucca

  1. nominative/vocative/accusative plural of mucc

Mutation

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Middle Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
mucca mucca
pronounced with /β̃(ʲ)-/
unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Old Irish

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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mucca

  1. nominative/vocative/accusative plural of mucc

Mutation

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