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Old Irish
Etymology
From madae + -ach.
Pronunciation
Adjective
madach
- 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 glosses frustrata
Inflection
| o/ā-stem
|
| Singular
|
Masculine
|
Feminine
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Neuter
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| Nominative
|
madach
|
madach
|
madach
|
| Vocative
|
madaig*
madach**
|
| Accusative
|
madach
|
madaig
|
| Genitive
|
madaig
|
madaige
|
madaig
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| Dative
|
madach
|
madaig
|
madach
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| Plural
|
Masculine
|
Feminine/neuter
|
| Nominative
|
madaig
|
madacha
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| Vocative
|
madachu
madacha†
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| Accusative
|
madachu
madacha†
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| Genitive
|
madach
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| Dative
|
madachaib
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| Notes
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*modifying a noun whose vocative is different from its nominative
**modifying a noun whose vocative is identical to its nominative
† not when substantivized
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Mutation
Mutation of madach
| radical |
lenition |
nasalization
|
madach
also mmadach after a proclitic
ending in a vowel
|
madach
pronounced with /β̃(ʲ)-/
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unchanged
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Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
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