Named afterFrenchMâcon, due to the West German team's highly successful performance at the 1959European Rowing Championships which took place there; attributed in part to their use of macon blades.
macon (pluralmacons)
macon (uncountable)
macon
FromProto-West Germanic*makōn.
macon
| infinitive | macon | |
|---|---|---|
| indicative | present | past |
| 1st person singular | maco,macon | macoda |
| 2nd person singular | macos | macodos |
| 3rd person singular | macot | macoda |
| 1st person plural | macon | macodon |
| 2nd person plural | macot | macodot |
| 3rd person plural | macont | macodon |
| subjunctive | present | past |
| 1st person singular | make | macodi |
| 2nd person singular | makis | macodis |
| 3rd person singular | make | macodi |
| 1st person plural | makin | macodin |
| 2nd person plural | makit | macodit |
| 3rd person plural | makin | macodin |
| imperative | present | |
| singular | maco | |
| plural | macot | |
| participle | present | past |
| macondi | macot,gimacot | |
Uncertain. Possibly cognate withmagu(“to rear, to raise, to nuture”), or from earlier*bac, derived fromLatinbāca(“berry, olive”).If from Latin, the/m/ would be a backformation from the soft-mutated formfacon, cf.mantais(“advantage”),melfaréd(“velveret”),melfed(“velvet”),mentr(“venture”),mursen(“coquette; damselfly”).
macon (plural,singularmaconen f)
| radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
|---|---|---|---|
| macon | facon | unchanged | unchanged |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
