mílmad

Classical Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish *mílmad. By surface analysis, míle (“thousand”) +‎ -mhadh (ordinal suffix). Compare Irish míliú, Manx millioo, and Scottish Gaelic mìleamh.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmʲiːlβ̃ə(ɣ)/

Adjective

mílmad

1. thousandth

Further reading

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