madae
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Old Irish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Celtic *madyos, from the root of maidid (“to break”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
madae
- 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. 46b12
- Madach .i. níba madae dam m’oísitiu, air na ní no·gigius, ebarthi Día.
- vain, i.e. my confession will not be vain to me, for whatever I shall pray for, God will grant it.
- 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. 46b12
Declension[edit]
| io/iā-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
| Nominative | madae | madae | madae |
| Vocative | madai | ||
| Accusative | madae | madai | |
| Genitive | madai | madae | madai |
| Dative | madu | madai | madu |
| Plural | Masculine | Feminine/neuter | |
| Nominative | madai | madai | |
| Vocative | madai madu* | ||
| Accusative | madai madu* | ||
| Genitive | madae | ||
| Dative | madaib | ||
| Notes | * when substantivized | ||
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
Mutation[edit]
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| madae also mmadae after a proclitic |
madae 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[edit]
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), chapter 31228, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language