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Elkei
Noun
matal
- woman
References
- transnewguinea.org, citing D. C. Laycock, Languages of the Lumi Subdistrict (West Sepik District), New Guinea (1968), Oceanic Linguistics, 7 (1): 36-66
Irish
Etymology
From Middle Irish matal, mattal, from Old Norse mǫttull (compare Icelandic möntull), itself borrowed from Late Latin mantellum, from Latin mantum (“cloak”).
Noun
matal m (genitive singular matail, nominative plural matail)
- (literary) mantle, cloak
- mantelpiece
Declension
Synonyms
Derived terms
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| matal
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mhatal
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not applicable
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| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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References
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “matal”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “matal, mattal”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Maltese
Etymology
From Arabic مَاطَلَ (māṭala).
Pronunciation
Verb
matal (imperfect jmatal, verbal noun tamtil)
- to hinder, to temporise
- to defer a payment
Conjugation