Maccidóndu

Old Irish

FWOTD – 7 June 2013

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Macedonī.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈmakʲiðoːn͈du]

Noun

Maccidóndu m pl (accusative)

  1. Macedonians
    Synonym: Macidonii
    • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 16d8
      Bíuu-sa oc irbáig dar far cenn-si fri Maccidóndu.
      I am boasting about you to the Macedonians.

Mutation

Mutation of Maccidóndu
radical lenition nasalization
Maccidóndu
also mMaccidóndu in h-prothesis environments
Maccidóndu
pronounced with /β̃-/
Maccidóndu
also mMaccidóndu

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