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giollacht

Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Middle Irish gillacht.[3] By surface analysis, giolla +‎ -acht.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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giollacht f (genitive singular giollachta)

  1. attendance (state of attending)
  2. service (act of being of assistance to someone)
  3. guiding, guidance (act or process of guiding)
  4. tending (looking after)

Declension

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Declension of giollacht

Third declension

Bare forms (no plural for this noun):

Case Singular
Nominative giollacht
Vocative a ghiollacht
Genitive giollachta
Dative giollacht

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular
Nominative an ghiollacht
Genitive na giollachta
Dative leis an ngiollacht

don ghiollacht

Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
giollacht ghiollacht ngiollacht
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  1. ^ “giollacht”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “gillaidecht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “gillacht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  4. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 38

Further reading

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