miotal

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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

Mutated forms of *miotal*
radical	lenition	eclipsis
miotal	mhiotal	not applicable

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

Further reading

Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “miotal”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “mital(l)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “miotal”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
“miotal”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025
Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 81

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