meitheal
Irish
Etymology
From Middle Irish methel, from Proto-Celtic *metelā (“troop of reapers”) (whence also Welsh medel (“reaping party”)), from the root of *meteti (“to reap, cut”), from Proto-Indo-European *met- (“to cut, reap”) (compare Latin metō, Czech and Polish motyka (“hoe”), English mattock.
Noun
meitheal f (genitive singular meithle, nominative plural meithleacha) or
meitheal m (genitive singular meithil, nominative plural meithil)
- group of people employed in the same agricultural work (e.g. making hay, cutting turf)
- (especially) band of reapers
- work party, gang (company of laborers)
- contingent (quota of troops)
- team (group of people)
- Synonym: foireann
Declension
As a feminine second-declension noun:
Declension of meitheal
Second declension
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As a masculine first-declension noun:
Declension of meitheal
First declension
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Mutation
| Irish mutation | ||
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| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| meitheal | mheitheal | not applicable |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
- “meitheal”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 meithel”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “meiṫeal”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 480
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “meitheal”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 34
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