gleoite
Irish edit
Alternative forms edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
gleoite
- 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 edit
Declension of gleoite
| Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | 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 edit
| Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| gleoite | ghleoite | ngleoite |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
References edit
Further reading edit
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “gleoite”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 369
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “gleoite”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN