madach

Old Irish

Etymology

From madae +‎ -ach.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmaðax]

Adjective

madach

1. vain (pointless, futile)
   • 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. 46^b12

     madach glosses frustrata

Inflection

o/ā-stem
Singular	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	madach	madach	madach
Vocative	madaig* madach**
Accusative	madach	madaig
Genitive	madaig	madaige	madaig
Dative	madach	madaig	madach
Plural	Masculine	Feminine/neuter
Nominative	madaig	madacha
Vocative	madachu madacha†
Accusative	madachu madacha†
Genitive	madach
Dative	madachaib
Notes	*modifying a noun whose vocative is different from its nominative **modifying a noun whose vocative is identical to its nominative † not when substantivized

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
madach also mmadach after a proclitic ending in a vowel	madach 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), “madach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language