Machae
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Old Irish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Machae f (genitive Machae)
- (Irish mythology) Macha, the name of a goddess in Irish mythology.
- (metonymically) The area around Armagh, now in Northern Ireland.
Inflection
[edit]Feminine iā-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | MachaeL | — | — |
Vocative | MachaeL | — | — |
Accusative | MachaiN | — | — |
Genitive | Machae | — | — |
Dative | MachaiL | — | — |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Mutation
[edit]Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
Machae also Mmachae after a proclitic ending in a vowel |
Machae 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]- (goddess): Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “2 Macha”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- (Armagh area): Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “3 Macha”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language