gleoite

Irish

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɟlʲoːtʲə/

Adjective

gleoite

  1. beautiful, pretty, charming, delightful
    • 1939, Peig Sayers, “Inghean an Cheannaidhe”, in Marie-Louise Sjoestedt, Description d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études; 270) (overall work in French), Paris: Librairie Honoré Champion, page 196:
      « Feuch, a chaptaen », ar sise, « do leanbhín gleóidhte ».
      “Look, Captain,” she said, “your beautiful baby.”

Declension

Declension of gleoite
Positive singular plural
masculine feminine strong noun weak noun
nominative gleoite ghleoite gleoite;
ghleoite2
vocative ghleoite gleoite
genitive gleoite gleoite gleoite
dative gleoite;
ghleoite1 		ghleoite gleoite;
ghleoite2
Comparative níos gleoite
Superlative is gleoite

1 When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
2 When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Mutation

Mutated forms of gleoite
radical lenition eclipsis
gleoite ghleoite ngleoite

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

References

  1. ^ “gleoite”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy

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