matal

Elkei

Noun

matal

1. woman

References

• transnewguinea.org, citing D. C. Laycock, Languages of the Lumi Subdistrict (West Sepik District), New Guinea (1968), Oceanic Linguistics, 7 (1): 36-66

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish matal, mattal, from Old Norse mǫttull (compare Icelandic möntull), itself borrowed from Late Latin mantellum, from Latin mantum (“cloak”).

Noun

matal m (genitive singular matail, nominative plural matail)

1. (literary) mantle, cloak
2. mantelpiece

Declension

Declension of matal

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative matal matail Vocative a mhatail a mhatala Genitive matail matal Dative matal matail

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an matal na matail Genitive an mhatail na matal Dative leis an matal don mhatal leis na matail

Synonyms

• (mantelpiece): clabhar

Derived terms

• clár matail (“mantelshelf”)

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
matal	mhatal	not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “matal”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “matal, mattal”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Maltese

Root
m-t-l
2 terms

Etymology

From Arabic مَاطَلَ (māṭala).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaː.tal/

Verb

matal (imperfect jmatal, verbal noun tamtil)

1. to hinder, to temporise
2. to defer a payment

Conjugation

Conjugation of matal
		singular				plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person
perfect	m	matalt	matalt	matal		matalna	mataltu	matlu
	f			matlet
imperfect	m	mmatal	tmatal	jmatal		mmatlu	tmatlu	jmatlu
	f			tmatal
imperative			matal				matlu