What does Macalla mean?

[Peter Kwangjun Suk]

I've already looked at the archive at stanford, but I didn't come up
with this.

What does the title of Clannad's albun _Macalla_ mean?

(I've heard it means 'echo' but I somehow have the idea that it means
"women of Ireland')

Thanks in Advance

--PKS

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[jtr...@vms.cis.pitt.edu]

In article <38pj7r$8...@litchi.cs.scarolina.edu>, s...@usceast.cs.scarolina.edu (Peter Kwangjun Suk) writes:
> I've already looked at the archive at stanford, but I didn't come up
> with this.
>
> What does the title of Clannad's albun _Macalla_ mean?
>
> (I've heard it means 'echo' but I somehow have the idea that it means
> "women of Ireland')

It means Echo is Irish (Gaeilge)
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[Craig Cockburn]

In article <38pj7r$8...@litchi.cs.scarolina.edu>

s...@usceast.cs.scarolina.edu "Peter Kwangjun Suk" writes:

> I've already looked at the archive at stanford, but I didn't come up
> with this.
>
> What does the title of Clannad's albun _Macalla_ mean?
>
> (I've heard it means 'echo' but I somehow have the idea that it means
> "women of Ireland')
>

The Scottish Gaelic equivalent is "Mac-talla", which is coincidentally
the name of probably Scotland's leading all-Gaelic group.

--
Craig Cockburn (pronounced "coburn"), Edinburgh, Scotland
Sgri\obh thugam 'sa Ga\idhlig ma 'se do thoil e.

[Robert Hart]

In article <783997...@scot.demon.co.uk>, Craig Cockburn (cr...@scot.demon.co.uk) writes:
>
> s...@usceast.cs.scarolina.edu "Peter Kwangjun Suk" writes:
>
>> I've already looked at the archive at stanford, but I didn't come up
>> with this.
>>
>> What does the title of Clannad's albun _Macalla_ mean?
>>
>> (I've heard it means 'echo' but I somehow have the idea that it means
>> "women of Ireland')
>>
>
>The Scottish Gaelic equivalent is "Mac-talla", which is coincidentally
>the name of probably Scotland's leading all-Gaelic group.

I heard that MACALLA meant family. I could be wrong but somehow it
seems to make sense.

Robert
Edinburgh, UK
RH...@STSALVADOR.WIN-UK.NET

[Craig Cockburn]

In article <7...@stsalvador.win-uk.net> rh...@stsalvador.win-uk.net writes:

> I heard that MACALLA meant family. I could be wrong but somehow it
> seems to make sense.
>

Mac means "Son of" and "A\l" means offspring, but I doubt this is the
etymology of the word. Macalla doesn't exist in Scots Gaelic and the
equivalent "Mac-talla" (=echo) I heard meant "son of the rocks".

Craig

[Michael Helm]

Robert Hart writes:
>>> What does the title of Clannad's albun _Macalla_ mean?
>>>
>>> (I've heard it means 'echo' but I somehow have the idea that it means
>>> "women of Ireland')

No, it does mean echo, but that's interesting. "Macalla" was the name
of an Irish all-women choral group that made a few albums in the mid-80's.
Mairead Ni Mhaonaigh was a member at one point.

>>The Scottish Gaelic equivalent is "Mac-talla", which is coincidentally
>>the name of probably Scotland's leading all-Gaelic group.
>
>I heard that MACALLA meant family. I could be wrong but somehow it
>seems to make sense.

In Irish, in the olden days, many things had special names
in the pattern "mac" + some other noun. A few of them are
still around, eg mac ti/re, son of the land, wolf; mac le/inn,
son of learning, a pupil; & macalla, son of a cliff, echo.
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[Winter Dragon]

You wanted to know what Macalla meant? Well, it does mean "echo," that info
was in the Fauim insert (another Clannad album)

Erin