macdacht

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *magotaxtā, with irregular phonetic deformations due to the influence of macc (“son”) and its word family.

Adjective

macdacht

  1. (of girls and women) of marriageable age

Usage notes

This word is usually seen as an indeclinable modifier of ingen (“girl”), but use with other terms is attested in Middle Irish.

Descendants

  • Middle Irish: macdacht

Mutation

Mutation of macdacht
radical lenition nasalization
macdacht
also mmacdacht in h-prothesis environments		 macdacht
pronounced with /β̃-/		 macdacht
also mmacdacht

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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