millteach

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish milltech (“baneful, destructive, malignant”); synchronically, millte +‎ -ach.

Noun

millteach m (genitive singular milltigh, nominative plural milltigh)

destroyer; malignant person
Alternative form of millteán (“stricken creature; sickly, miserable-looking person or animal”)

Declension

Declension of millteach

First declension

Bare forms:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	millteach	milltigh
Vocative	a mhilltigh	a mhillteacha
Genitive	milltigh	millteach
Dative	millteach	milltigh

Forms with the definite article:

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	an millteach	na milltigh
Genitive	an mhilltigh	na millteach
Dative	leis an millteach don mhillteach	leis na milltigh

Adjective

millteach (genitive singular masculine milltigh, genitive singular feminine milltí, plural millteacha, comparative milltí)

destructive; baneful, pernicious
enormous, extreme

Declension

Declension of millteach

Positive	Masculine	Feminine	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
	Singular		Plural (m/f)
Nominative	millteach	mhillteach	millteacha; mhillteacha²
Vocative	mhilltigh	mhillteach	millteacha
Genitive	mhilltigh	milltí	millteacha	millteach
Dative	millteach; mhillteach¹	mhillteach; mhilltigh (archaic)	millteacha; mhillteacha²
Comparative	níos milltí
Superlative	is milltí

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Derived terms

millteachas m (“destructiveness, destruction”)

Mutation

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

References

"millteach" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
“milltech” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish milltech (“baneful, destructive, malignant”).

Adjective

millteach (comparative milltiche)

References

Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
“milltech” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

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