metal is meital

meital = metal (noun) (some things Google found for "meital": an uncommon term; an unusual to uncommon Hebrew feminine first name, notably Israeli actress and musical artist Meital Dohan; an unusual to rare last name)

Word derivation for "metal" :
Basque = metal, Finnish = metalli
Miresua = meital

This is a word that I didn't have much to work with, so I got a little creative.

This should have been posted on the 18th. I lost track of the date. Instead of retroactively manipulating the post's date, I'm publishing this on the next even numbered day.

The word metal doesn't occur in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland or Through the Looking-glass.