millteach

Irish

Etymology

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

Noun

millteach m (genitive singular milltigh, nominative plural milltigh)

  1. destroyer; malignant person
  2. 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)

  1. destructive; baneful, pernicious
  2. enormous, extreme

Declension
Declension of millteach
Singular Plural (m/f)
Positive Masculine Feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
Nominative millteach mhillteach millteacha;
mhillteacha²
Vocative mhilltigh millteacha
Genitive 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

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

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

Adjective

millteach (comparative milltiche)

  1. ruinous, destructive
  2. prodigal
  3. abusive
  4. grassy
  5. verdant
  6. wasting
  7. baneful
  8. deadly

References
  • Edward Dwelly (1911), “millteach”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “milltech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.