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millteach
millteach
Irish
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
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Bare forms:
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Forms with the definite article:
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Adjective
millteach (genitive singular masculine milltigh, genitive singular feminine milltí, plural millteacha, comparative milltí)
Declension
Declension of millteach
| Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
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| Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
| Nominative | millteach | millteach¹ | millteacha³ | |
| Vocative | milltigh¹ | millteach¹ | millteacha | |
| Genitive | milltigh¹ | milltí (obsolete) milltighe |
millteacha | millteach |
| Dative | millteach² | millteach¹ (archaic) milltigh¹ |
millteacha³ | |
| Comparative | milltí (obsolete) milltighe |
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¹ This form is lenited after a noun if possible.
² This form is lenited if possible when the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
³ This form is lenited if possible when the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Derived terms
- millteachas m (“destructiveness, destruction”)
Mutation
| Irish mutation | ||
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| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| millteach | mhillteach | unchanged |
| 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 0 901771 92 9
- “milltech” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.