tellach
Middle Irish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtʲel͈əx/, /ˈtʲel͈ax/
Noun
tellach n (later m)
- hearth, fireplace
- c. 1000, Anonymous, published in (1935) Rudolf Thurneysen, editor, Scéla Mucca Meic Dathó (in Middle Irish), Dublin: Staionery Office, § 1, l. 12, page 2: “Secht ndoruis isin bruidin ocus secht sligeda trethe ocus secht tellaige indi ocus secht cori. ― [There were] seven doors in the hall, and seven passages through it, and seven hearths in it, and seven cauldrons.”
Declension
- Nominative/vocative/accusative/genitive plural: tellaige
- Dative plural: tellaigib
Mutation
| Middle Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| tellach | thellach | tellach pronounced with /d(ʲ)-/ |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Further reading
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 tellach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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