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2 matan (maiten)
ā, f., a fight, battle (in the morning?); prob. same word as preceding, cf. similar use of fescur; in TBC 4138 : truág in maten maten máirt, both meanings may be implied. Confined to poetic lang. ba s[i] maten . . . i n-abbad rí Lagen, ZCP xi 109.10 . mad mattain foraib i mbárach i nUrd (sic leg. ), Ériu iii 140.181 →

mátán
o, m., a club or staff? mátan maglorci móri fria ais amal mol mulind, FB 37. matán matluirge, 38 Eg. cona madan . . . in mathan, 40 Eg. mattan lorgan lānremhire . . . fria gualaind, ZCP xiii 168. 11 . gs. la turcbail a mátan, FB 38 →

matanrad
o, m., (orig. n.?) morning-time: ó nóna co maidenrad, Anecd. ii 3.16 . fri eirge moch matanraid `the early rise of morning time ', Ériu vii 4 § 3. as úar gǽth an mhadanraidh, Buile S. 88.9 , cf. 72.3 →

math
u, m., an archaic word for bear, K. M. Wortk. § 43 ; for deriv. see RC x 166 , xxvi 198 ; replaced in Mid.Ir. by math- gamain. gs. bruth matho, FB 52 = mathgaman, Eg. tond mairnech mathrúamdae, ib. (compd.?) = athruamda, Eg.
See mathgamain and Mathgein.

1 matha
danger, hazard? m.¤ .i. cunntabairt, O'Dav. 1278 (`doubt' Stokes). mathadh .i. cunntabairt ut est: cen matha for marbu marus .i. cin conntabairt, 1238 . mathfadh .i. conn- tabhairt, O'Cl. for médugud matha fo neimh, LL 385 c 16 →

3 Matha
npr.m. name of a mythical druid: m.¤ mac Umoir . . . in drai do Loegaire, Laws iii 28.13 . m.¤ mac U. do Thuathaib De Danand no do Fearaib Bolg, ib. 28 Comm. Math mac Úmóir in drui, LL 9 b 37 →

máthir mathir máthar

máthair
r,f. ns. máthir, Sg. 65 a 6 . ds. sen-mathir, Wb. 29 d 11 . gs. máthar, Sg. 31 a 12 , 61 a 22 . mathar, Ml. 71 c 15 →

máthardae
io, iā. maternal: isin mbroin mathardi, Ml. 44 a 10 . ar tteanga mátharda, Ir. Review 1913, 594 § 2 .

mátharlach
[o, m.] (<máthair; for suff. see Ped. ii 55 ) a womb: gl. matrix, Sg. 69 a 7 .