maige

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Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *magyos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂yos, a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s.

Adjective

maige

  1. great, mighty

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
maige
also mmaige after a proclitic
ending in a vowel
maige
pronounced with /β̃(ʲ)-/
unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.


References

Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “maige”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language