mac tíre
Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Irish macc tíre, corresponding to mac (“son”) + tíre (genitive of tír (“land”)).
Pronunciation
Noun
mac tíre m (genitive singular mic tíre, nominative plural mic tíre)
- wolf
- 1958, in Celtica, volume 4, page 107:
- Ag rú<t> mac tíre tríotha [ag] rucam ráe?
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- Synonyms: cú allta, faolchú, madra alla, madra allta
- 1958, in Celtica, volume 4, page 107:
Mutation
| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| mac tíre | mhac tíre | not applicable |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “mac”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 mac, macc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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- “wolf”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “mactíre”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm