macthae

Old Irish

Alternative forms

• macdae, maccthae

Etymology

From macc +‎ -de.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmakθe/

Adjective

macthae

1. childish, juvenile
   • 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. 12^c9

     Ní dénim gnímu macthi.

     I do not do childish deeds.

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
macthae also mmacthae after a proclitic ending in a vowel	macthae 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), “mac(c)thae”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language