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Irish
Etymology
From Middle Irish maccoím, from Old Irish macc coím; equivalent to mac (“son”) + caomh (“gentle”).
Noun
macaomh m (genitive singular macaoimh, nominative plural macaoimh)
- young person, youth; boy, lad
- (scouting) Cub
Declension
Derived terms
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| macaomh
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mhacaomh
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not applicable
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| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “macaomh”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “maccoím”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “macaomh”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm