ruccae

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• rucce (Würzburg glosses)

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *rukkiyom, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ- (“red”).

Noun

ruccae n

1. shame, disgrace
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 24^a30

     .i. bid rucce et mebul doib aní inda·mmóidet.

     i.e. that in which they boast will be a shame and disgrace to them.

   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 49^d4

     .i. ní frithalim ruccai for m'anmaim tri foisitin t'anmae-siu, a Dæ.

     i.e. I do not expect shame upon my name through the confession of Your (sg) name, O God.

Inflection

Neuter io-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ruccaeN	ruccaeL	ruccaeL
Vocative	ruccaeN	ruccaeL	ruccaeL
Accusative	ruccaeN	ruccaeL	ruccaeL
Genitive	ruccaiL	ruccaeL	ruccaeN
Dative	ruccuL	ruccaib	ruccaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Mutation

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

Further reading

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