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)

metal
1. hard, solid, material
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

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.

Further reading

Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “miotal”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “mital(l)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Entries containing “miotal” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
Entries containing “miotal” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 81

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