macc

Old Irish

Etymology

From Primitive Irish ᚋᚐᚊᚊᚔ (maqqi, genitive), from Proto-Celtic *makkʷos, a variant of *makʷos (“son”), (compare Welsh mab, Gaulish mapos, Maponos), perhaps, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂ḱ- (“long, thin”) (compare , Latin macer (“thin”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mak/

Noun

macc m (genitive maicc or meicc, nominative plural maicc or meicc)

1. son
2. bond
3. surety

Declension

Masculine o-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	macc	maccL	maiccL, meicc
Vocative	maicc, meicc	maccL	maccuH
Accusative	maccN	maccL	maccuH
Genitive	maiccL, meicc	macc	maccN
Dative	maccL	maccaib	maccaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: H = triggers aspiration L = triggers lenition N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

• Irish: mac
• Manx: mac
• Scottish Gaelic: mac

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
macc also mmacc after a proclitic ending in a vowel	macc 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), “1 mac, macc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language