millteach

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish milltech (“baneful, destructive, malignant”). By surface analysis, millte +‎ -ach.

Noun

millteach m (genitive singular milltigh, nominative plural milltigh)

  1. destroyer; malignant person
  2. alternative form of millteán (“stricken creature; sickly, miserable-looking person or animal”)

Declension

Declension of millteach (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative millteach milltigh
vocative a mhilltigh a mhillteacha
genitive milltigh millteach
dative millteach milltigh
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an millteach na milltigh
genitive an mhilltigh na millteach
dative leis an millteach
don mhillteach 		leis na milltigh

Adjective

millteach (genitive singular masculine milltigh, genitive singular feminine milltí, plural millteacha, comparative milltí)

  1. destructive; baneful, pernicious
  2. enormous, extreme

Declension

Declension of millteach
Positive singular plural
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

  • millteachas m (“destructiveness, destruction”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of millteach
radical lenition eclipsis
millteach mhillteach not applicable

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish milltech (“baneful, destructive, malignant”).

Adjective

millteach (comparative milltiche)

  1. ruinous, destructive
  2. prodigal
  3. abusive
  4. grassy
  5. verdant
  6. wasting
  7. baneful
  8. deadly

References

  • 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
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