macc

Old Irish

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

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

Masculine o-stem
	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	macc	macc^L	maicc^L, meicc
Vocative	maicc, meicc	macc^L	maccu^H
Accusative	macc^N	macc^L	maccu^H
Genitive	maicc^L, meicc	macc	macc^N
Dative	macc^L	maccaib	maccaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective: ^H = triggers aspiration ^L = triggers lenition ^N = triggers nasalization

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

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