millteach
Irish
editEtymology
editFrom Old Irish milltech (“baneful, destructive, malignant”). By surface analysis, millte + -ach.
Noun
editmillteach m (genitive singular milltigh, nominative plural milltigh)
- destroyer; malignant person
- Alternative form of millteán (“stricken creature; sickly, miserable-looking person or animal”)
Declension
editDeclension of millteach
Bare forms:
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Forms with the definite article:
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Adjective
editmillteach (genitive singular masculine milltigh, genitive singular feminine milltí, plural millteacha, comparative milltí)
Declension
editDeclension of millteach
Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
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Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
Nominative | millteach | mhillteach | millteacha; mhillteacha² | |
Vocative | mhilltigh | millteacha | ||
Genitive | milltí | millteacha | millteach | |
Dative | millteach; mhillteach¹ |
mhillteach; mhilltigh (archaic) |
millteacha; mhillteacha² | |
Comparative | níos milltí | |||
Superlative | is milltí |
¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Derived terms
edit- millteachas m (“destructiveness, destruction”)
Mutation
editIrish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
millteach | mhillteach | not applicable |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
edit- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “millteach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “milltech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Scottish Gaelic
editEtymology
editFrom Old Irish milltech (“baneful, destructive, malignant”).
Adjective
editmillteach (comparative milltiche)
References
edit- Edward Dwelly (1911) “millteach”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary][1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “milltech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Categories:
- Irish terms inherited from Old Irish
- Irish terms derived from Old Irish
- Irish adjectives suffixed with -ach
- Irish nouns suffixed with -ach
- Irish lemmas
- Irish nouns
- Irish masculine nouns
- Irish first-declension nouns
- Irish adjectives
- Scottish Gaelic terms inherited from Old Irish
- Scottish Gaelic terms derived from Old Irish
- Scottish Gaelic lemmas
- Scottish Gaelic adjectives