mailléas

Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin malleus.

Noun

mailléas m (genitive singular mailléis, nominative plural mailléis)

  1. (anatomy) malleus

Declension

Declension of mailléas (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative mailléas mailléis
vocative a mhailléis a mhailléasa
genitive mailléis mailléas
dative mailléas mailléis
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an mailléas na mailléis
genitive an mhailléis na mailléas
dative leis an mailléas
don mhailléas
leis na mailléis

Synonyms

Mutation

Mutated forms of mailléas
radical lenition eclipsis
mailléas mhailléas not applicable

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

Further reading

  • malleus”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025