Noun: meitheal
Gender: Fem
Forms without Article
| Singular Nominative | meitheal |
| Singular Genitive | meithle |
| Plural Nominative | meithleacha |
| Plural Genitive | meithleacha |
Forms with Article
| Singular Nominative | an mheitheal |
| Singular Genitive | na meithle |
| Plural Nominative | na meithleacha |
| Plural Genitive | na meithleacha |
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Etymology
From Middle Irish methel, from Proto-Celtic *metelā (“troop of reapers”) (whence also Welsh medel (“reaping party”)), from the root of *meteti (“to reap, cut”), from Proto-Indo-European *met- (“to cut, reap”) (compare Latin metō, Czech and Polish motyka (“hoe”), English mattock. See: Latin Nouns '
metō', Polish Nouns '
motyka', English Nouns '
mattock'.
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