míliú

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Irish

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Irish numbers (edit)
[a], [b] ←  1  ←  100 1,000 1,000,000 (106)  →  1,000,000,000 (109)  → 
    Cardinal: míle
    Ordinal: míliú

Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Middle Irish *mílmad. By surface analysis, míle (thousand) +‎ (ordinal suffix). Compare Classical Gaelic mílmad,[2] Manx millioo, and Scottish Gaelic mìleamh.

Adjective

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míliú (abbreviated 1000ú)

  1. thousandth

Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
míliú mhíliú not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ míliú”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “mílmad”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading

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