míle

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míle f

1. mile

• IPA^(key): /ˈmʲiːlʲə/

From Old Irish míle, from Latin mīlia.

míle m (genitive míle, plural mílte)

1. thousand

• céad míle fáilte
• go raibh míle maith agat

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “míle”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Ó Dónaill, Niall, Ua Maoileoin, Pádraig (1991) “míle”, in An Foclóir Beag (in Irish), Dublin: An Gúm
• Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 43
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “míle”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “míle”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024

From Latin mīlia, plural of mīlle (“mile”, literally “thousand”) (used as a short form of mīlle passūs (“a thousand paces”)).

míle m (genitive singular míle, nominative plural mílte)

1. mile

   Synonyms: míle slí, míle de shlí

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “míle”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Borrowed from Latin mīlia.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmʲiːlʲe/

míle n

1. thousand

• Middle Irish: míle
  • Irish: míle
  • Manx: milley
  • Scottish Gaelic: mìle

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “míle”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language