tellach

Middle Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish tenlach, from the root of teine (“fire”) + -lach.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʲel͈əx/, /ˈtʲel͈ax/

Noun

tellach n (later m)

1. hearth, fireplace
   • c. 1000, anonymous author, edited by Rudolf Thurneysen, Scéla Mucca Meic Dathó, Dublin: Stationery Office, published 1935, § 1, page 2, line 12:

     Secht ndoruis isin bruidin ocus secht sligeda trethe ocus secht tellaige indi ocus secht cori.

     [There were] seven doors in the hall, and seven passages through it, and seven hearths in it, and seven cauldrons.

Declension

• Nominative/vocative/accusative/genitive plural: tellaige
• Dative plural: tellaigib

Descendants

• Irish: teallach
• Manx: çhiollagh
• Scottish Gaelic: teallach

Mutation

Mutation of tellach

radical	lenition	nasalization
tellach	thellach	tellach pronounced with /d(ʲ)-/

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

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 tellach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language