- ma
- if, Irish má, Old Irish má, ma, Cornish, Breton ma (also mar); cf. Sanskrit sma, smâ, an emphatic enclitic (= "indeed") used after pronouns etc., the -sm- which appears in the Indo-European pronoun forms (Greek $$Ga$$'mme = n$$.s-sme, us).
Etymological dictionary of the Gaelic language. Alexander Gairm Publications. 1982.