madae

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *madyos, from the root of maidid (to break).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈmaðɘ]

Adjective

madae

  1. vain (pointless, futile)
    • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 46b12
      Madach .i. níba madae dam m’oísitiu, air na ní no·gigius, ebarthi Día.
      vain, i.e. my confession will not be vain to me, for whatever I shall pray for, God will grant it.

Declension

io/iā-stem
Singular Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Vocative madai
Accusative Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) madai
Genitive madai Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) madai
Dative madu madai madu
Plural Masculine Feminine/neuter
Nominative madai madai
Vocative madai
madu*
Accusative madai
madu*
Genitive Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Dative madaib
Notes * when substantivized

Derived terms

  • i mmudu
    • Irish: amú
  • madach

Descendants

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
also mmadae after a proclitic
Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
pronounced with /ṽ(ʲ)-/
unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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