poc
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin paucus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w- (“few, small”).
Pronunciation
Determiner
poc (feminine poca, masculine plural pocs, feminine plural poques)
Synonyms
Adverb
poc
Irish
Etymology
From Middle Irish boc, pocc, poc (“he-goat”), from Old English bucca.
Noun
poc m (genitive singular poic, nominative plural poic)
- buck (male deer, goat, etc.)
- butt (as from goat)
- (hurling) puck, stroke of stick, stroke of play
- puck (of cattle)
Declension
Declension of poc
Derived terms
Derived terms
- poc aosán (“sudden, mysterious bout of illness”)
- poc mearaidh (“touch of insanity”)
- poc tinnis (“bout of illness”)
- (buck):
- poc gabhair, pocán (“billy goat”)
- poc fionn (“male fallow deer”)
- (hurling):
- poc báire (“stroke”)
- poc cúil (“puckout”)
- poc sleasa (“sideline cut, side puck”)
- poc saor (“free, free puck”)
Mutation
Irish mutation | ||
---|---|---|
Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
poc | phoc | bpoc |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “poc”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 boc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “poc(c)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Categories:
- Catalan terms inherited from Latin
- Catalan terms derived from Latin
- Catalan terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Catalan terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Catalan/ɔk
- Catalan lemmas
- Catalan determiners
- Catalan adverbs
- Irish terms inherited from Middle Irish
- Irish terms derived from Middle Irish
- Irish terms derived from Old English
- Irish lemmas
- Irish nouns
- Irish masculine nouns
- ga:Hurling
- Irish first-declension nouns
- ga:Male animals