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Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish matan[1] (compare Irish maidin, Manx maddin), from Latin mātūtīnus (“of the morning”, adjective) (compare French matin), from Mātūta (“goddess of morning”).
Pronunciation
Noun
madainn f (genitive singular maidne, plural maidnean)
- morning
Declension
- Alternative genitive singular: maidneadh (Uist, Barra)
Derived terms
Mutation
| Scottish Gaelic mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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| madainn |
mhadainn
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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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References
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 matan, maiten”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1937) The dialect of Barra in the Outer Hebrides, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap