matal

Elkei

Noun

matal

1. woman

References

• transnewguinea.org, citing D. C. Laycock, Languages of the Lumi Subdistrict (West Sepik District), New Guinea (1968), Oceanic Linguistics, 7 (1): 36-66

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish matal, mattal, from Old Norse mǫttull (compare Icelandic möntull), itself borrowed from Late Latin mantellum, from Latin mantum (“cloak”).

Noun

matal m (genitive singular matail, nominative plural matail)

1. (literary) mantle, cloak
2. mantelpiece

Declension

Declension of matal (first declension)

bare forms case singular plural nominative matal matail vocative a mhatail a mhatala genitive matail matal dative matal matail forms with the definite article case singular plural nominative an matal na matail genitive an mhatail na matal dative leis an matal don mhatal leis na matail

Synonyms

• (mantelpiece): clabhar

Derived terms

• clár matail (“mantelshelf”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of matal

radical	lenition	eclipsis
matal	mhatal	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) “matal”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “matal, mattal”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Maltese

Root
m-t-l
2 terms

Etymology

From Arabic مَاطَلَ (māṭala).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaː.tal/

Verb

matal (imperfect jmatal, verbal noun tamtil)

1. to hinder, to temporise
2. to defer a payment

Conjugation

Conjugation of matal

		singular				plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person
perfect	m	matalt	matalt	matal		matalna	mataltu	matlu
	f			matlet
imperfect	m	mmatal	tmatal	jmatal		mmatlu	tmatlu	jmatlu
	f			tmatal
imperative			matal				matlu