meitheal

Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word meitheal. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word meitheal, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say meitheal in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word meitheal you have here. The definition of the word meitheal will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition ofmeitheal, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish methel, from Proto-Celtic *metelā (“troop of reapers”) (whence also Welsh medel (“reaping party”)), from the root of *meteti (“to reap, cut”), from Proto-Indo-European *met- (“to cut, reap”) (compare Latin metō, Czech and Polish motyka (“hoe”), English mattock.

Pronunciation

Noun

meitheal f (genitive singular meithle, nominative plural meithleacha) or
meitheal m (genitive singular meithil, nominative plural meithil)

  1. group of people employed in the same agricultural work (e.g. making hay, cutting turf)
  2. (especially) band of reapers
  3. work party, gang (company of laborers)
  4. contingent (quota of troops)
  5. team (group of people)
    Synonym: foireann

Declension

As a feminine second-declension noun:

Declension of meitheal

Second declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative meitheal meithelacha
Vocative a mheitheal a mheithelacha
Genitive meithle meithelacha
Dative meitheal
meithil (archaic, dialectal) 		meithelacha

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an mheitheal na meithelacha
Genitive na meithle na meithelacha
Dative leis an meitheal
leis an meithil (archaic, dialectal)

don mheitheal
don mheithil (archaic, dialectal)

leis na meithelacha

As a masculine first-declension noun:

Declension of meitheal

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative meitheal meithil
Vocative a mheithil a mheitheala
Genitive meithil meitheal
Dative meitheal meithil

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an meitheal na meithil
Genitive an mheithil na meitheal
Dative leis an meitheal

don mheitheal

leis na meithil

Mutation

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

Further reading

Wikious
Boobota
Sagapedia