Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/mokkus

Etymology
Borrowed from a non-Indo-European language. MacBain prefers a derivation from, connecting 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  pig, hog, swine

Usage notes
The Brythonic descendants are masculine and the Goidelic descendants feminine. It is probable that the word originally belonged to either gender, depending on the sex of the specific animal referred to.

Descendants



 * (“sow, female pig”, western)
 * (“sow, female pig”, western)
 * (“sow, female pig”, western)