matad

Middle Irish

Etymology

From a variant form of Old Irish madrad.

Noun

matad m

1. dog

   Synonym: cú

2. cur

Derived terms

• mataidecht f (“doghood, state of being a dog”)

Descendants

• Irish: madadh
• Manx: moddey
• Scottish Gaelic: madadh

Mutation

Mutation of matad

radical	lenition	nasalization
matadh also mmatadh after a proclitic ending in a vowel	matadh pronounced with /β̃(ʲ)-/	unchanged

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

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “matad”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Spanish

Verb

matad

1. second-person plural imperative of matar

Swedish

Participle

matad

1. past participle of mata