amucc

Tashelhit

Alternative forms

  • amucca — Medieval Tashelhit
  • mucc

Etymology

From Proto-Berber [Term?], possibly an agent noun of Proto-Berber *ăččəʔ (“to eat”), Compare amecɣerdayen (“a species of snakes, (lit.mice eater)”), and Latin mūriceps (“cat”), or possibly related to muccu (“to be black”).

Cognates include Tuareg mušš (“cat”), Tarifit mucc (“cat”), Kabyle amcic (“cat”), Zenaga muṣṣ, ŭmas (“cat”), Nefusa biciw (“cat”), and Central Atlas Tamazight ⴰⵎⵓⵛⵛ (amucc, “cat”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /amuʃː/

Noun

amucc m (construct state umucc, plural imucciwn or imacciwn or imuccawn, Tifinagh spelling ⴰⵎⵓⵛⵛ, Arabic spelling آموشّ)

  1. cat
    Synonym: ayaḍus
    iġ tt ur yufa umušš ar ittini tj̣j̣a.
    When the cat doesn't find it (the meat), it says it's rotten.

See also

References

  • Stroomer, Harry (2025), Dictionnaire berbère tachelḥiyt-français — Tome 1 a—e (Handbook of Oriental Studies – Handbuch der Orientalistik; 188/1) (in French), Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 313a
  • Kossmann, M. G. (1999). Essai sur la phonologie du proto-berbère. Germany: Köppe, page: 223,224
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