An difríocht idir athruithe ar: "Mac Céacht"

Sa scéal na MeánGhaeilge ''Cath Bóinde'' – dar teideal ''Ferchuitred Medba'' (Fear- liúntas Mhéabha) freisin – is leasainm é Mac Cécht do Monodar mac Conrach Cas, laoch a raibh cónaí air is amhlaidh i g[[Connacht]] sa 1d aois. Mharaigh eisean agus a dheartháir Tindi, Fidig mac Feicc [[Gamanraige]], de thuaisceart na gConnacht ó dúchaisdhúchas, de bharr a shuirí ar [[Méabh|Mhéabh]], iníon [[Eochaidh Feidhil|Eochaidhe Feidhil]], [[Ard-Rí na hÉireann]]. Deirtear gur chuir Eochaidh Tindi ar deoraíocht go fásaigh Chonnacht de bharr an dúnmharaithe seo.

''Monodar appears later in exile in [[Ulaidh]] and is somehow no longer on good terms with Tindi, as it is told that Tindi was killed in single combat by Monodar during the battle of the Boyne. after the former had joined Eochaidh Feidhil to attack Ulster along with the men of [[Mumha]] and Sraibgend MacNiuil, the grandfather of Medb's future husband [[Ailill mac Máta]]. Here, forFor this deed Monodar receives the nickname "Mac Cécht", explained as ''mac écht'' 'son of slaughter'. He appears to have become one of [[Conchúr Mac Neasa]]'s champions.

''TheTá etymologicalsanasaíocht derivationan isainm recalledle infáil the latesa ''[[Meán-Ghaeilge]] tract ''Cóir Anmann]]'' ("The Fitness of Names"), itemuimhir 158:

:'' “''Maccecht'', that'sé issin, a son (''maccmac'') thata committedrinne the cruellest homicide (''écht'') , for'sé hesin, killedmharaigh insé combata hisdheartháir ownféin brotheri gcomhrac, even'sé sin, Tinne sonmac of ConnraConnrach. Now TinneBa wasrí atConnacht thaté timeTinne kingag ofan Connaughtam, andagus mharaigh Monodar, sonmac ofConnrach Connra, killed himé, ''whereupon for that homicide which Monodar had perpetrated (the name) ''Macc-echt'' was given him''. Ba é Conodar was''proprium hisnomen propereius'' name(a ainm ceart)."