mital

Middle Irish

Alternative forms

• mitall

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French metal (“metal”), from Latin metallum (“metal, mine, quarry, mineral”), from Ancient Greek μέταλλον (métallon, “mine, quarry, metal”).

Noun

mital

1. metal

Descendants

• Irish: miotal

Mutation

Mutation of mital

radical	lenition	nasalization
mital also mmital after a proclitic ending in a vowel	mital pronounced with /β̃(ʲ)-/	unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Middle Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “mital(l)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Tagalog

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /miˈtal/ [mɪˈt̪al]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: mi‧tal

Noun

mitál (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜒᜆᜎ᜔) (obsolete)

1. alternative form of metal

Tolai

Alternative forms

• amital

Pronoun

mital

1. First-person exclusive paucal pronoun: they (few) and I, them (few) and me

Declension

Tolai personal pronouns

	singular	dual	paucal	plural
1st person exclusive	iau	amir mir	amital mital	avet ave1
1st person inclusive	-	dor	datal	dat da1
2nd person	u	amur mur	amutal mutal	avat ava1
3rd person	ia i	dir di	dital	diat dia1

¹⁾ The plural pronouns lose the final -t when preceding a verb.