tellach
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Middle Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish tenlach, from the root of teine (“fire”) + -lach.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]tellach n (later m)
- hearth, fireplace
- c. 1000, anonymous author, edited by Rudolf Thurneysen, Scéla Mucca Meic Dathó, Dublin: Stationery Office, published 1935, § 1, page 2, line 12:
- 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
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Mutation
[edit]Middle Irish mutation | ||
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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
[edit]- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 tellach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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- Middle Irish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Middle Irish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *tep-
- Middle Irish terms inherited from Old Irish
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