macalla

See also: məcəllə

Irish

Alternative forms

• mac-alla (superseded)

Etymology

From Middle Irish mac alla (“echo”, literally “son of a cliff”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mˠaˈkal̪ˠə/

Noun

macalla m (genitive singular macalla, nominative plural macallaí)

1. echo, reverberation

   Synonym: allabhair

Declension

Declension of macalla (fourth declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative macalla macallaí vocative a mhacalla a mhacallaí genitive macalla macallaí dative macalla macallaí forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an macalla na macallaí genitive an mhacalla na macallaí dative leis an macalla don mhacalla leis na macallaí

Derived terms

• macallach

Mutation

Mutated forms of macalla

radical	lenition	eclipsis
macalla	mhacalla	not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• “macalla”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 mac, macc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “macalla”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 454