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): /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 m (“type metal”)
  • gan mhiotal (“insubstantial”)
  • miotalach (“metallic; mettlesome, spirited; hardy, wiry”, adj)
  • miotalagrafaíocht f (“metallography”)
  • miotalaí f (“mettlesomeness; hardiness, wiriness”)
  • miotalaigh (“metallize”, verb)
  • miotalaigineas m (“metallogeny”)
  • miotal alcaile m (“alkali metal”)
  • miotalapróitéin f (“metalloprotein”)
  • miotal cré-alcaileach m (“alkali-earth metal”)
  • miotal éadrom m (“light metal”)
  • miotaleolaíoch (“metallurgical”, adj)
  • miotaleolaíocht f (“metallurgy”)
  • miotal fabhtach m (“honeycombed metal”)
  • miotal gan ghaibhneacht m (“unwrought metal”)
  • miotal gunna m (“gun metal”)
  • miotal lómhar m, miotal uasal m (“noble metal”)
  • miotal monaidh m (“coinage metal”)
  • miotal neamhlómhar m (“base metal”)
  • miotalóideach (“metalloid”)
  • miotalóir m (“metallurgist”)
  • miotal róid m (“road-metal”)
  • miotaltáirgeach (“metal-bearing”, adj)
  • miotal tanaí m (“light-section metal”)
  • miotal tiubh m (“heavy-gauge metal”)
  • miotal trom m (“heavy metal”)
  • 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 f (“wire”)

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
miotal mhiotal not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References
  • "miotal" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
  • “mital(l)” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
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