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Stocaí Nollag Posted by on Dec 6, 2011

(le Róislín) Stoca.  Plural: stocaí [STOK-ee]  Now there’s a nice, fairly straightforward word in Irish!  Sock, socks.  Or “stocking, stockings.”  The translation depends somewhat on context, of course. Good news?  The words “stoca” and “stocaí” cannot be lenited, or eclipsed, or otherwise “initially mutated” because of the consonant cluster “st,” which never changes.  Even in…

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