Gaoidhealg

Classical Gaelic

Alternative forms

• Gáoidhealg

Etymology

From Old Irish Goídelc.

Proper noun

Gaoidhealg f (genitive singular Gaoidhilge, dative and accusative singular Gaoidhilg)

1. Gaelic language, Irish
2. (grammar) pronunciation, spoken language as opposed to ogham (“spelling, written language”)
   • a. 1640, Eoin Mac Cárthaigh, editor, The Art of Bardic Poetry: A New Edition of Irish Grammatical Tracts I, published 2014, §2, ll. 80–3, page 56:

     ⁊ dlighidh dā phríomhlocht na soidélach do sheachna, (…) ⁊ an connsuine bháithtear do G[h]āoidheilg do dhénamh d’ogham san chomhfhocal

     and he should avoid the two cardinal faults of the peudo-knowledgeable, (…) and writing the consonant elided in pronunciation in a compound word

   • a. 1640, Eoin Mac Cárthaigh, editor, The Art of Bardic Poetry: A New Edition of Irish Grammatical Tracts I, published 2014, §50, ll. 555–6, page 88:

     Nī cōir na séimhighthe-sin náid a leithéide eile do rádh do G[h]āoidheilg, giodh cōir d’ogham íad

     Such lenition should not be expressed in pronunciation, though it is correct in writing

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish Goídelc.

Proper noun

Gaoidhealg f (genitive Gaoidhilge)

1. Obsolete form of Gaeilge.

Declension

Declension of Gaoidhealg

Second declension

Bare forms (no plural form of this noun) Case Singular Nominative Gaoidhealg Vocative a Ghaoidhealg Genitive Gaoidhilge Dative Gaoidhilg

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Nominative an Ghaoidhealg Genitive na Gaoidhilge Dative leis an nGaoidhilg don Ghaoidhilg

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
Gaoidhealg	Ghaoidhealg	nGaoidhealg
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “Gaoidheal”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “Goídelc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language