gluais
Irish
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editFrom Middle Irish glúais, from Old Irish glúas (“gloss, commentary, explanation”), from Late Latin glōssa (“gloss”), from Ancient Greek γλῶσσα (glôssa, “tongue, language, an obsolete or foreign word requiring explanation”).
Noun
editgluais f (genitive singular gluaise, nominative plural gluaiseanna)
- comment, remark
- gloss
- glossary
- movement
- (obsolete) device, contrivance (mechanical device to perform a certain task)
Declension
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Bare forms
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Forms with the definite article
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Etymology 2
editFrom Old Irish glúasid (“moves, stirs, sets in motion; incites, influences; proceeds, moves, goes”).
Verb
editgluais (present analytic gluaiseann, future analytic gluaisfidh, verbal noun gluaiseacht, past participle gluaiste)
- move
- proceed
- derive from
- pass
- set out
- 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 126:
- ȷeŕ šē lm̥ fanəxt šȧxtn̥ elə søl ə ʒluəšəs mē.
- [Deir sé liom fanacht seachtain eile sula ghluaiseas mé.]
- He tells me to wait another week before I set out.
- 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart, volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 126:
- ʒā ŋluəšā əníš, çukā ə n-ām çȧrt eǵ ə bātrūn.
- [Dhá ngluaisfeá anois, thiocfá in am cheart ag an bpátrún.]
- If you set out now, you would come to the pattern at the right time.
Conjugation
edit* indirect relative
† archaic or dialect form
‡‡ dependent form used with particles that trigger eclipsis
Derived terms
edit- gluaiseacht (“motion; movement; passage; power”)
- gluaisrothar (“motorbicycle; motorcycle”)
Mutation
editIrish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
gluais | ghluais | ngluais |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References
edit- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 152, page 59
Further reading
edit- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “gluais”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Scottish Gaelic
editEtymology
editFrom Old Irish glúasid (“move, proceed”).
Pronunciation
editVerb
editgluais (past ghluais, future gluaisidh, verbal noun gluasad, past participle gluaiste)
Derived terms
edit- gluaisneachd (“motion, movement”)
Mutation
editScottish Gaelic mutation | |
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Radical | Lenition |
gluais | ghluais |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
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