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): /ˈmʲɪt̪ˠəl̪ˠ/, /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
• 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

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.

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, 2013-2024
• Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 81