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Old Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *madawyos, from the root of maidid (“to break”).
Pronunciation
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.
Declension
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Descendants
Mutation
Mutation of madae
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lenition |
nasalization
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madae
also mmadae after a proclitic
ending in a vowel
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madae
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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