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Irish
Etymology
From Old Irish midlach (“one incapable of bearing arms, below the status of a warrior, weak-witted person; coward, weakling”).
Noun
miodhlach f (genitive singular miodhlaí, nominative plural miodhlacha)
- (literary) weakling, coward; buffoon, imbecile
Declension
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| miodhlach
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mhiodhlach
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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) “miodhlach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “midlach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language