miotal

Irish

Etymology

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈmʲɪt̪ˠəlˠ/

Noun

miotal m (genitive singular miotail, nominative plural miotail)

1. metal
   1. hard, solid, material
2. mettle, spirit; hardihood

Declension

Declension of miotal

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative miotal miotail Vocative a mhiotail a mhiotala Genitive miotail miotal Dative miotal miotail

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an miotal na miotail Genitive an mhiotail na miotal Dative leis an miotal don mhiotal leis na miotail

Derived terms

• clómhiotal m (“type metal”)
• gan mhiotal (“insubstantial”)
• miotalach (“metallic; mettlesome, spirited; hardy, wiry”, adj)
• miotalagrafaíocht f (“metallography”)
• miotalaí f (“mettlesomeness; hardiness, wiriness”)
• miotalaigh (“metallize”, verb)
• miotalaigineas m (“metallogeny”)
• miotal alcaile m (“alkali metal”)
• miotalapróitéin f (“metalloprotein”)
• miotal cré-alcaileach m (“alkali-earth metal”)
• miotal éadrom m (“light metal”)
• miotaleolaíoch (“metallurgical”, adj)
• miotaleolaíocht f (“metallurgy”)
• miotal fabhtach m (“honeycombed metal”)
• miotal gan ghaibhneacht m (“unwrought metal”)
• miotal gunna m (“gun metal”)
• miotal lómhar m, miotal uasal m (“noble metal”)
• miotal monaidh m (“coinage metal”)
• miotal neamhlómhar m (“base metal”)
• miotalóideach (“metalloid”)
• miotalóir m (“metallurgist”)
• miotal róid m (“road-metal”)
• miotaltáirgeach (“metal-bearing”, adj)
• miotal tanaí m (“light-section metal”)
• miotal tiubh m (“heavy-gauge metal”)
• miotal trom m (“heavy metal”)
• 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 f (“wire”)

 

Mutation

Irish mutation
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.

References

• "miotal" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “mital(l)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language