murtall

Irish

Etymology

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Noun

murtall m (genitive singular murtaill)

1. (pathology) obesity, fatness

   Synonyms: beathaitheacht, cothaitheacht, foircheas, foircheasacht, otracht

Declension

Declension of murtall (first declension, no plural)

bare forms case singular nominative murtall vocative a mhurtaill genitive murtaill dative murtall forms with the definite article case singular nominative an murtall genitive an mhurtaill dative leis an murtall don mhurtall

Mutation

Mutated forms of murtall

radical	lenition	eclipsis
murtall	mhurtall	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) “murtall”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• “murtall”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024