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

Mutated forms of miotal

radical	lenition	eclipsis
miotal	mhiotal	not applicable

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