machaire

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish machaire;[1] compare Manx magher, Scottish Gaelic and English machair.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmãxəɾʲə/[2]

Noun

machaire m or f (genitive singular machaire, nominative plural machairí or machaireacha)

  1. plain (an expanse of land with relatively low relief and few trees, especially a grassy expanse)
  2. field
  3. machair
  4. (literary) battlefield
  5. (literary) battle

Declension

Declension of machaire (fourth declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative machaire machairí
vocative a mhachaire a mhachairí
genitive machaire machairí
dative machaire machairí
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an machaire na machairí
genitive an mhachaire na machairí
dative leis an machaire
don mhachaire 		leis na machairí

Synonyms

Derived terms

  • Carraig Mhachaire Rois (“Carrickmacross”)
  • gunna machaire (“field gun”)
  • machaire catha (“battlefield”)
  • Machaire Fíolta (“Magherafelt”)
  • machaire gailf (“golf course”)
  • machaire ráis (“racecourse”)
  • Machaire Rátha (“Maghera”)
  • marascal machaire (“field marshal”)
  • ospidéal machaire (“field hospital”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of machaire
radical lenition eclipsis
machaire mhachaire not applicable

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

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “machaire”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906), A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 230

Further reading

  • “machaire”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  • Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927), “maċaire”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 692; reprinted with additions 1996, →ISBN
  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “machaire”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
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