machdad

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• machdath, machthad, magthad

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmaxðað]

Noun

machdad m

1. wonder, admiration
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 68^b9

     cia beith ar n‑acathar nech inna rétu inducbaidi in betha so, arnach·corathar i mmoth ⁊ machthad dia seirc ⁊ dia n‑accubur

     though it be that someone sees the glorious things of this world, that he may not be put in stupor and admiration by love for them and by desire for them

   • c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 65^a1

     Níbu machdath do·rónta día dind lïac.

     It was not a wonder that a god would be made of the stone.

Descendants

• Middle Irish: machtad, machtnad
  • Irish: machnamh

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
machdad also mmachdad after a proclitic ending in a vowel	machdad pronounced with /β̃(ʲ)-/	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 machtad”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language