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Irish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Irish macgním. By surface analysis, mac + gníomh.
Noun
macghníomh m (genitive singular macghníomha or macghnímh, nominative plural macghníomhartha)
- youthful exploit, boyish feat/deed
Declension
References
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “mac-ġníoṁ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 455
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “mac-, maic-, -mac”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society
- “macghníomh”, in The National Terminology Database for Irish, Fiontar & Scoil na Gaeilge, DCU and Foras na Gaeilge, 2006–2024
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “macghníomh”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- 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