glaoch

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Irish gláedach (calling, crying out, shouting), verbal noun of gláedid (cries out).[1]

Pronunciation

  • (Aran) IPA(key): /ɡliːx/, /ɡleːx/; (older) /ɡlɯːx/[2]

Noun

glaoch m (genitive singular as substantive glaoigh, genitive as verbal noun glaoite)

  1. verbal noun of glaoigh
  2. calling, call

Declension

(as verbal noun):

Declension of glaoch (irregular, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative glaoch
vocative a ghlaoch
genitive glaoite
dative glaoch
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an glaoch
genitive an ghlaoite
dative leis an nglaoch
don ghlaoch

(as substantive):

Declension of glaoch (first declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative glaoch
vocative a ghlaoigh
genitive glaoigh
dative glaoch
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an glaoch
genitive an ghlaoigh
dative leis an nglaoch
don ghlaoch

Mutation

Mutated forms of glaoch
radical lenition eclipsis
glaoch ghlaoch nglaoch

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

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 gláedach”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 126

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