madae
Old Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *madawyos, from the root of maidid (“to break”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈmaðɘ]
Adjective
madae
- vain (pointless, futile)
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 46b12
- Madach .i. níba madae dam m’oísitiu, air na ní no·gigius, ebarthi Día.
- vain, i.e. my confession will not be vain to me, for whatever I shall pray for, God will grant it.
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 46b12
Declension
| singular | masculine | feminine | neuter |
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | madae | madae | madae |
| vocative | madai | ||
| accusative | madae | madai | |
| genitive | madai | madae | madai |
| dative | madu | madai | madu |
| plural | masculine | feminine/neuter | |
| nominative | madai | madai | |
| vocative | madai madu* | ||
| accusative | madai madu* | ||
| genitive | madae | ||
| dative | madaib | ||
* when substantivized
Derived terms
Descendants
Mutation
| radical | lenition | nasalization |
|---|---|---|
| madae also mmadae in h-prothesis environments |
madae pronounced with /β̃-/ |
madae also mmadae |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “31228”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language