miotal
Irish edit
Etymology edit
From Middle Irish mital, mitall (“metal”), borrowed from Old French metal, from Latin metallum (“metal, mine, quarry, mineral”), from Ancient Greek μέταλλον (métallon, “mine, quarry, metal”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
miotal m (genitive singular miotail, nominative plural miotail)
Declension edit
Declension of miotal
Bare forms:
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Forms with the definite article:
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Derived terms edit
- clómhiotal
- gan mhiotal (“insubstantial”)
- miotal alcaile m (“alkali metal”)
- miotal cré-alcaileach m (“alkali-earth metal”)
- miotal éadrom m (“light metal”)
- miotal fabhtach m (“honeycombed metal”)
- miotal gan ghaibhneacht m (“unwrought metal”)
- miotal gunna m (“gun metal”)
- miotal lómhar m (“noble metal”)
- miotal monaidh m (“coinage metal”)
- miotal neamhlómhar m (“base metal”)
- miotal róid m (“road-metal”)
- miotal tanaí m (“light-section metal”)
- miotal tiubh m (“heavy-gauge metal”)
- miotal trom m (“heavy metal”)
- miotal uasal m (“noble metal”)
- miotalach (“metallic; spirited; hardy”, adjective)
- miotalagrafaíocht
- miotalaí f (“mettlesomeness; hardiness, wiriness”)
- miotalaigh (“metallize”, verb)
- miotalaigineas
- miotalapróitéin f (“metalloprotein”)
- miotaleolaíoch
- miotaleolaíocht
- miotalóideach (“metalloid”)
- miotalóir
- miotaltáirgeach (“metal-bearing”, adjective)
- miotalú m (“metallization”)
- neamh-mhiotal m (“non-metal”)
- oibrí miotail m (“metalworker”)
- pláta miotail m (“metal plate”)
- sábh miotail m (“hacksaw”)
- sail mhiotail f (“(metal) dross”)
- sreang mhiotail
Mutation edit
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
miotal | mhiotal | not applicable |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading edit
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “miotal”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “mital(l)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Entries containing “miotal” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
- Entries containing “miotal” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 81