madadh
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Irish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Irish matad (“common dog, cur”). Compare madra.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]madadh m (genitive singular madaidh, nominative plural madaí)
Declension
[edit]Declension of madadh
Mutation
[edit]Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
madadh | mhadadh | not applicable |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “mada”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “matad”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 72
Scottish Gaelic
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle Irish matad (“dog”). Cognates include Irish madadh and Manx moddey.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]madadh m
- dog, fox, wolf
- brown mussel
- butt-end of a gun
- cock of a gunlock (the part in which the flint used to be fixed)
Usage notes
[edit]- madadh may refer to various canids; however, the usual term for "dog" is cù, and derived compound nouns are usually used for the other species. In the Arran dialect, however, madadh is the usual term for a dog, and cù is seldom heard.
Declension
[edit]Declension of madadh (type I masculine noun)
Indefinite | ||
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Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | madadh | madaidhean |
Genitive | madaidh | mhadaidhean |
Dative | madadh | madaidhean; madaidhibh✝ |
Definite | ||
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | (am) madadh | (na) madaidhean |
Genitive | (a') mhadaidh | (nam) madaidhean |
Dative | (a') mhadadh | (na) madaidhean; madaidhibh✝ |
Vocative | (a) mhadaidh | (a) mhadaidhean |
✝ obsolete form, used until the 19th century
Derived terms
[edit]Mutation
[edit]Scottish Gaelic mutation | |
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Radical | Lenition |
madadh | mhadadh |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
[edit]- Edward Dwelly (1911) “madadh”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary][1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “matad”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Colin Mark (2003) “madadh”, in The Gaelic-English dictionary, London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 411
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