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Documentation for Template:R:MacBain. [edit]
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This template takes the first positional parameter for a single page number, first two positional parameters for a range of pages, and the parameter |head= for a lemma.

MacBain is very unreliable for tracing etymologies beyond Old Irish, since it was published decades before Indo-European etymology was refined as a discipline. Cite with caution.