meitheal

Irish edit

Etymology edit

From Middle Irish methel, from Proto-Celtic *metelā (“troop of reapers”) (whence also Welsh medel (“reaping party”)), from the root of *meteti (“to reap, cut”), from Proto-Indo-European *met- (“to cut, reap”) (compare Latin metō, Czech and Polish motyka (“hoe”), English mattock.

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /ˈmʲɛhəl̪ˠ/
(Connacht, Ulster, also) IPA^(key): /ˈmʲɛhəlˠ/

Noun edit

meitheal f (genitive singular meithle, nominative plural meithleacha) or
meitheal m (genitive singular meithil, nominative plural meithil)

group of people employed in the same agricultural work (e.g. making hay, cutting turf)
(especially) band of reapers
work party, gang (company of laborers)
contingent (quota of troops)
team (group of people)
Synonym: foireann

Declension edit

As a feminine second-declension noun:

Declension of meitheal

Second declension

Bare forms

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	meitheal	meithelacha
Vocative	a mheitheal	a mheithelacha
Genitive	meithle	meithelacha
Dative	meitheal meithil (archaic, dialectal)	meithelacha

Forms with the definite article

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an mheitheal	na meithelacha
Genitive	na meithle	na meithelacha
Dative	leis an meitheal leis an meithil (archaic, dialectal) don mheitheal don mheithil (archaic, dialectal)	leis na meithelacha

As a masculine first-declension noun:

Declension of meitheal

First declension

Bare forms:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	meitheal	meithil
Vocative	a mheithil	a mheitheala
Genitive	meithil	meitheal
Dative	meitheal	meithil

Forms with the definite article:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an meitheal	na meithil
Genitive	an mheithil	na meitheal
Dative	leis an meitheal don mheitheal	leis na meithil

Mutation edit

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