matal

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Noun

matal

  1. 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)

  1. (literary) mantle, cloak
  2. mantelpiece

Declension

Declension of matal (first declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative matal matail
vocative a mhatail a mhatala
genitive matail matal
dative matal matail
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an matal na matail
genitive an mhatail na matal
dative leis an matal
don mhatal 		leis na matail

Synonyms

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of matal
radical lenition eclipsis
matal mhatal not applicable

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

References

Maltese

Root
m-t-l
2 terms

Etymology

From Arabic مَاطَلَ (māṭala).

Pronunciation

Verb

matal (imperfect jmatal, verbal noun tamtil)

  1. to hinder, to temporise
  2. to defer a payment

Conjugation

Conjugation of matal
singular plural
1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
perfect m matalt matalt matal matalna mataltu matlu
f matlet
imperfect m mmatal tmatal jmatal mmatlu tmatlu jmatlu
f tmatal
imperative matal matlu
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