tellach

Middle Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish tenlach, from the root of teine (“fire”) + -lach.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʲel͈əx/, /ˈtʲel͈ax/

Noun

tellach n (later m)

1. 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

Descendants

• Irish: teallach
• Manx: çhiollagh
• Scottish Gaelic: teallach

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