Old Irish edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Latin Macedonī.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [ˈmakʲiðoːn͈du]

Noun edit

Maccidóndu m pl (accusative)

  1. Macedonians
    Synonym: Macidonii
    • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 16d8
      Bíuu-sa oc irbáig dar far cenn-si fri Maccidóndu.
      I am boasting about you to the Macedonians.

Mutation edit

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
Maccidóndu
also Mmaccidóndu after a proclitic
Maccidóndu
pronounced with /ṽ(ʲ)-/
unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.