macthae

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Old Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From macc +‎ -de.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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macthae

  1. childish, juvenile
    • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 12c9
      Ní dénim gnímu macthi.
      I do not do childish deeds.

Mutation

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Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
macthae
also mmacthae after a proclitic
ending in a vowel
macthae
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

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