millteach

Irish

Etymology

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

Mutated forms of millteach

radical	lenition	eclipsis
millteach	mhillteach	not applicable

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

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “millteach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “milltech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “milltech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language