míle

See also: Appendix:Variations of "mile"

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmiːlɛ]

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Noun

míle f

1. mile

Declension

Declension of míle (soft feminine quant-alt)

	singular	plural
nominative	míle	míle
genitive	míle	mil
dative	míli	mílím
accusative	míli	míle
vocative	míle	míle
locative	míli	mílích
instrumental	mílí	mílemi

Derived terms

• milník m

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmʲiːlʲə/

Etymology 1

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←  1	←  100	1,000	1,000,000 (106)  →	1,000,000,000 (109)  →
Cardinal: míle     Ordinal: míliú

From Old Irish míle, from Latin mīlia.

Numeral

míle m (genitive míle, plural mílte)

1. thousand

Derived terms

• céad míle fáilte
• go raibh míle maith agat

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “míle”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Ó Dónaill, Niall, Ua Maoileoin, Pádraig (1991) “míle”, in An Foclóir Beag (in Irish), Dublin: An Gúm
• Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 43
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “míle”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “míle”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025

Etymology 2

From Latin mīlia, plural of mīlle (“mile”, literally “thousand”) (used as a short form of mīlle passūs (“a thousand paces”)).

Noun

míle m (genitive singular míle, nominative plural mílte)

1. mile

   Synonyms: míle slí, míle de shlí

Declension

Declension of míle (fourth declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative míle mílte vocative a mhíle a mhílte genitive míle mílte dative míle mílte forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an míle na mílte genitive an mhíle na mílte dative leis an míle don mhíle leis na mílte

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “míle”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Mutation

Mutated forms of míle

radical	lenition	eclipsis
míle	mhíle	not applicable

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

Old Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mīlia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmʲiːlʲe/

Numeral

Old Irish cardinal numbers

	1000
Cardinal : míle     Ordinal : mílmad

míle n

1. thousand

Descendants

• Middle Irish: míle
  • Irish: míle
  • Manx: milley
  • Scottish Gaelic: mìle

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “míle”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language