Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From gliog (click, jingle) +‎ -aire

Pronunciation

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Noun

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gliogaire m (genitive singular gliogaire, nominative plural gliogairí)

  1. blabberer, prattler, prater
  2. boaster

Declension

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Declension of gliogaire (fourth declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative gliogaire gliogairí
vocative a ghliogaire a ghliogairí
genitive gliogaire gliogairí
dative gliogaire gliogairí
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an gliogaire na gliogairí
genitive an ghliogaire na ngliogairí
dative leis an ngliogaire
don ghliogaire
leis na gliogairí

Mutation

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Mutated forms of gliogaire
radical lenition eclipsis
gliogaire ghliogaire ngliogaire

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

References

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  1. ^ gliogaire”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 87

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