machnamh

Irish

Alternative forms

  • machtnadh, machtnú, machtnughadh (obsolete)
  • machtnamh (superseded)[1]

Etymology

Alteration of Middle Irish machtnad (“wonder, surprise”),[2] a variant of Old Irish machdad (“wonder, astonishment”).[3] By surface analysis, machn(aigh) +‎ -amh.

Pronunciation

Noun

machnamh m (genitive singular machnaimh)

  1. verbal noun of machnaigh
  2. contemplation, meditation, consideration

Declension

Declension of machnamh (first declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative machnamh
vocative a mhachnaimh
genitive machnaimh
dative machnamh
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an machnamh
genitive an mhachnaimh
dative leis an machnamh
don mhachnamh

Mutation

Mutated forms of machnamh
radical lenition eclipsis
machnamh mhachnamh 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. ^ “machnamh”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “machtnad”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 machtad”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  4. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 232, page 117
  5. ^ Ó Cuív, Brian (1968) The Irish of West Muskerry, Co. Cork: A Phonetic Study, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, →ISBN, page 109; reprinted 1988

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