mac tíre
Irish
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Old Irish macc tíre, corresponding to mac (“son”, noun) + tíre (genitive of tír (“land”)).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editmac tíre m (genitive singular mic tíre, nominative plural mic tíre)
- wolf
- Synonyms: cú allta, faolchú, madra alla, madra allta
- 1958, Celtica, volume 4, page 107:
- Ag rú⟨t⟩ mac tíre tríotha [ag] rucam ráe?
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Mutation
editIrish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
mac tíre | mhac tíre | not applicable |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
edit- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “mac”, 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
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “mac tíre”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 455
- “wolf”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2024
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “mactíre”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm