trócar

== Old Irish == === Etymology === From Proto-Celtic *trougokaros, from *trougos (“wretched”) +‎ *-karos (“loving”). Compare Welsh trugar. /-k-/ is the phonologically regular outcome of earlier /-ɣx-/, from -gok- by lenition of intervocalic consonants followed by syncope of the unstressed vowel. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈt̪ɾoː.kəɾ/ (Blasse) [ˈt̪ɾoː.kaɾ] (Griffith) [ˈt̪ɾoː.kəɾ] === Adjective === trócar merciful ==== Inflection ==== ==== Derived terms ==== trócaire === Mutation === === Further reading === Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “trócar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language