mianadóir

Irish

From Old Irish mían (“vein of ore, mine”) + -adóir (compare Scottish Gaelic mèinneadair).

mianadóir m (genitive singular mianadóra, nominative plural mianadóirí)

Declension of mianadóir

Third declension

Bare forms:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an mianadóir	na mianadóirí
Genitive	an mhianadóra	na mianadóirí
Dative	leis an mianadóir don mhianadóir	leis na mianadóirí

mianadóir guail m (“coal-miner”)
mianadóir óir m (“gold-miner”)
mianadóir salainn m (“salter”)
mianadóir stáin m (“tinner”)
mianadóireacht f (“(act of) mining; (act of) burrowing, excavating, digging deep”)

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

Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “mianadóir”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “2 mían”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Entries containing “mianadóir” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
Entries containing “mianadóir” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

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