Cormac

English

Borrowed from Irish, from Old Irish Cormac.

Cormac

A male given name from Irish.
- 2018 October 10, Keza MacDonald, “Red Dead Redemption 2: three hours with the most anticipated game of the year”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:
  It gave me more of a Cormac McCarthy vibe than a Westworld one, hinting at the death of the old west, the consequences of America’s rapid industrialisation and the death of a way of life, rather than a straightforward romanticisation of the frontier and its outlaw heroes.

male given name

From Old Irish Cormac, older Corbmac (see the Old Irish entry).

Cormac m (genitive Chormaic)

Declension of Cormac (first declension, no plural)

forms with the definite article
	singular
nominative	an Cormac
genitive	an Chormaic
dative	leis an gCormac don Chormac

Mutated forms of *Cormac*
radical	lenition	eclipsis
Cormac	Chormac	gCormac

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

From older Corbmac, from corb (possibly meaning “raven” or “wheel” or “chariot”) + macc (“son”). For the first element see carbad.

Cormac m

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

Mutation of *Cormac*
radical	lenition	nasalization
Cormac	Chormac	Cormac pronounced with /ɡ-/

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