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Irish
Etymology
From Middle Irish tellach, from Old Irish tenlach, from the root of tine (“fire”).
Pronunciation
Noun
teallach m (genitive singular teallaigh, nominative plural teallaigh)
- fireplace (open hearth)
- hearthstone
Declension
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| teallach
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theallach
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dteallach
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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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Further reading
- “teallach”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 tellach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “teallaċ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 725
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “teallach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 79