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): /ˈmʲɪt̪ˠəl̪ˠ/, /ˈmʲɪt̪ˠəlˠ/
Noun
miotal m (genitive singular miotail, nominative plural miotail)
- metal
- hard, solid, material
- mettle, spirit; hardihood
Declension
Declension of miotal (first declension)
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Derived terms
- clómhiotal
- gan mhiotal (“insubstantial”)
- miotal alcaile m (“alkali metal”)
- miotal cré-alcaileach m (“alkali-earth metal”)
- miotal éadrom m (“light metal”)
- miotal fabhtach m (“honeycombed metal”)
- miotal gan ghaibhneacht m (“unwrought metal”)
- miotal gunna m (“gun metal”)
- miotal lómhar m (“noble metal”)
- miotal monaidh m (“coinage metal”)
- miotal neamhlómhar m (“base metal”)
- miotal róid m (“road-metal”)
- miotal tanaí m (“light-section metal”)
- miotal tiubh m (“heavy-gauge metal”)
- miotal trom m (“heavy metal”)
- miotal uasal m (“noble metal”)
- miotalach (“metallic; spirited; hardy”, adjective)
- miotalagrafaíocht
- miotalaí f (“mettlesomeness; hardiness, wiriness”)
- miotalaigh (“metallize”, verb)
- miotalaigineas
- miotalapróitéin f (“metalloprotein”)
- miotaleolaíoch
- miotaleolaíocht
- miotalóideach (“metalloid”)
- miotalóir
- miotaltáirgeach (“metal-bearing”, adjective)
- 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
Mutation
Mutated forms of miotal
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lenition
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eclipsis
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mhiotal
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not applicable
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Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “miotal”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “mital(l)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “miotal”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “miotal”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 81