macalla

See also: məcəllə

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish mac alla (“echo”, literally “son of a cliff”).[2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mˠaˈkal̪ˠə/[3][4]

Noun

macalla m (genitive singular macalla, nominative plural macallaí)

  1. echo, reverberation
    Synonym: allabhair

Declension

Declension of macalla (fourth declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative macalla macallaí
vocative a mhacalla a mhacallaí
genitive macalla macallaí
dative macalla macallaí
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an macalla na macallaí
genitive an mhacalla na macallaí
dative leis an macalla
don mhacalla 		leis na macallaí

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of macalla
radical lenition eclipsis
macalla mhacalla not applicable

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

References

  1. ^ “macalla”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 mac, macc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Ó Sé, Diarmuid (2000) Gaeilge Chorca Dhuibhne [The Irish of Corkaguiny] (in Irish), Institiúid Teangeolaíochta Éireann [Linguistics Institute of Ireland], →ISBN, section 65, page 53
  4. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 480, page 153

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