macthae

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• macdae, maccthae

Etymology

From macc +‎ -de.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmakθe/

Adjective

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. 12^c9

     Ní dénim gnímu macthi.

     I do not do childish deeds.

Mutation

Mutation of macthae

radical	lenition	nasalization
macthae also mmacthae after a proclitic ending in a vowel	macthae 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), “mac(c)thae”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language