gliceas

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish gliccus.[3] By surface analysis, glic +‎ -as.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɟlʲɪcəsˠ/

Noun

gliceas m (genitive singular glicis)

  1. cleverness, shrewdness

Declension

Declension of gliceas (first declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative gliceas
vocative a ghlicis
genitive glicis
dative gliceas
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an gliceas
genitive an ghlicis
dative leis an ngliceas
don ghliceas

Mutation

Mutated forms of gliceas
radical lenition eclipsis
gliceas ghliceas ngliceas

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

References

  1. ^ Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “gliocacht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
  2. ^ “gliceas”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  3. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “gliccus”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

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