miotal

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”).

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

Terms derived from miotal

clómhiotal m (“type metal”)
gan mhiotal (“insubstantial”)
miotalach (“metallic; mettlesome, spirited; hardy, wiry”, adj)
miotalagrafaíocht f (“metallography”)
miotalaí f (“mettlesomeness; hardiness, wiriness”)
miotalaigh (“metallize”, verb)
miotalaigineas m (“metallogeny”)
miotal alcaile m (“alkali metal”)
miotalapróitéin f (“metalloprotein”)
miotal cré-alcaileach m (“alkali-earth metal”)
miotal éadrom m (“light metal”)

miotaleolaíoch (“metallurgical”, adj)
miotaleolaíocht f (“metallurgy”)
miotal fabhtach m (“honeycombed metal”)
miotal gan ghaibhneacht m (“unwrought metal”)
miotal gunna m (“gun metal”)
miotal lómhar m, miotal uasal m (“noble metal”)
miotal monaidh m (“coinage metal”)
miotal neamhlómhar m (“base metal”)
miotalóideach (“metalloid”)
miotalóir m (“metallurgist”)
miotal róid m (“road-metal”)

miotaltáirgeach (“metal-bearing”, adj)
miotal tanaí m (“light-section metal”)
miotal tiubh m (“heavy-gauge metal”)
miotal trom m (“heavy metal”)
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 f (“wire”)

Mutation

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

References

"miotal" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
“mital(l)” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

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