Mál means ‘father’. You can also spell this word má:l (the colon indicates a slightly longer vowel, but the difference is not significant with this word).
Pronunciation
Mál sounds like mal, with the same vowel as in English mad.
Audio: Elizabeth Herrling, Elizabeth Phillips
Plural form
Mál has a special plural form, like this: melmál – ‘fathers‘ (audio here).
Elders make this type of plural by partly doubling (‘reduplicating’) the first part of the word.
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