Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA form of address to a male friend or young man.
Borrowed from Irish a mhic (“literally, my son”), from a (“vocative marker”) + mhic (“lenited form of mic”), variant of mac (“son”).
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- Borrowed-form mentiona mhicga
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