macalla
See also: məcəllə
Irish edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Middle Irish mac alla (“echo”, literally “son of a cliff”)
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
macalla m (genitive singular macalla, nominative plural macallaí)
- echo, reverberation
- Synonym: allabhair
Declension edit
Declension of macalla
Bare forms
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Forms with the definite article
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Derived terms edit
Mutation edit
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
macalla | mhacalla | not applicable |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading edit
- “macalla”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 mac, macc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “macalla”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 454