macc tíre

Old Irish

Noun

macc tíre m

1. wolf

   Synonyms: cú, cú allaid

Descendants

• Irish: mac tíre

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
macc tíre also mmacc tíre after a proclitic ending in a vowel	macc tíre pronounced with /β̃(ʲ)-/	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• 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