teallach

Irish

Etymology

From Middle Irish tellach, from Old Irish tenlach, from the root of tine (“fire”).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

teallach m (genitive singular teallaigh, nominative plural teallaigh)

  1. fireplace (open hearth)
  2. hearthstone

Declension

Declension of teallach (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative teallach teallaigh
vocative a theallaigh a theallacha
genitive teallaigh teallach
dative teallach teallaigh
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an teallach na teallaigh
genitive an teallaigh na dteallach
dative leis an teallach
don teallach 		leis na teallaigh

Mutation

Mutated forms of teallach
radical lenition eclipsis
teallach theallach dteallach

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

Further reading

  • “teallach”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  • Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904), “teallaċ”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 725
  • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “teallach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish tellach, from Old Irish tenlach, from the root of teine (“fire”).

Pronunciation

Noun

teallach m (genitive singular teallaich, plural teallaichean)

  1. hearth fireplace, fireside (open hearth)
  2. fireplace, fire setting (of a kiln)
  3. forge, furnace (of a smith)
  4. anvil

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 tellach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906), A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 207, page 79
  3. ^ Ladefoged, Jenny; Ladefoged, Peter; Turk, Alice; Hind, Kevin (5 February 1996), “Word List for Scottish Gaelic (Great Bernera, Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland)”, in The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive‎[1], Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics
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