macc

See also: Macc.

Old Irish

Alternative forms

mac

Etymology

From Primitive Irish ᚋᚐᚊᚔ (maqi, genitive), from Proto-Celtic *makkʷos, a variant of *makʷos (“son”) (compare Welsh mab, Gaulish mapos, Maponos), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂ḱ- (“to raise, increase”) (compare Ancient Greek μακρός (makrós, “long”), Latin macer (“thin”).^[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈmak/

Noun

macc m (genitive maicc or meicc, nominative plural maicc or meicc)

son
child
- 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. 25^c6
  Hóre ammi maicc laí et soilse, ná seichem nahísiu.
  Since we are children of day and light, let us not follow these things.
- 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. 33^a15
  Fomnid-si, a phopul núíednissi, ar ce dud·rónath ní di maith fri maccu Israhél…
  Take heed, O people of the New Testament, for although some good has been done to the children of Israel…
- 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. 33^b8
  Ní derlaicht⟨h⟩a a pecdæ doïb acht du·ratad dígal forru. Cenotad maic-si raith dano, má im·roimsid ní dílgibther dúib.
  Their sins have not been forgiven them, but punishment has been inflicted upon them. Though you pl, then, are children of grace, if you sin, you will not be forgiven.
- 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. 53^c11
  in tan as·mbeir, “Taít, á maccu”
  when he says, “Come, children”

Declension

Masculine o-stem
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	macc, mac	macc^L, mac	maic(c)^L, meic(c)
vocative	maic(c), meic(c)	macc^L, mac	maccu^H
accusative	macc^N, mac	macc^L, mac	maccu^H
genitive	maic(c)^L, meic(c)	macc, mac	macc^N, mac
dative	macc^L, mac	maccaib	maccaib

Initial mutations of a following adjective:

^H = triggers aspiration
^L = triggers lenition
^N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

Middle Irish: mac
- Irish: mac
- Manx: mac
- Scottish Gaelic: mac

Mutation

Mutation of *macc*
radical	lenition	nasalization
macc also mmacc in h-prothesis environments	macc pronounced with /β̃-/	macc also mmacc

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

^ Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*makʷo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 253