macc tíre

Old Irish

Noun

macc tíre m

1. wolf

   Synonyms: cú, cú allaid

Descendants

• Irish: mac tíre

Mutation

Mutation of macc tíre

radical	lenition	nasalization
macc tíre also mmacc tíre after a proclitic ending in a vowel	macc tíre pronounced with /β̃(ʲ)-/	unchanged

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

Further reading

• 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