gealán

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish gelán.[2] By surface analysis, geal (“bright”) +‎ -án.

Pronunciation

  • (Munster) IPA(key): /ɟɪˈl̪ˠɑːn̪ˠ/
  • (Aran) IPA(key): /ˈɟɛlɑːn/[3]
  • (Connemara, Mayo) IPA(key): /ˈɟalˠɑːnˠ/, /ˈɟal̪ˠɑːn̪ˠ/
  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈɟalˠanˠ/, /ˈɟal̪ˠan̪ˠ/

Noun

gealán m (genitive singular gealáin, nominative plural gealáin)

  1. gleam (indistinct, small or short-lived appearance of light; indistinct sign of something), flash
    gealán dóchais ― gleam of hope
  2. aurora
  3. whiting (fine white chalk)
  4. (art, photography) highlight (strongly illuminated area; hair dyed a different color)
  5. (dated) brightness
  6. (literary) lightning
    saighead gealáin ― flash of lightning
  7. white (of an egg, of the eye)

Declension

Declension of gealán (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative gealán gealáin
vocative a ghealáin a ghealána
genitive gealáin gealán
dative gealán gealáin
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an gealán na gealáin
genitive an ghealáin na ngealán
dative leis an ngealán
don ghealán 		leis na gealáin

Synonyms

Derived terms

  • cith gealáin (“sunny shower”)
  • cith is gealán (“shower and sunshine (alternating)”)
  • Gealáin Theas (“aurora australis, southern lights”)
  • Gealáin Thuaidh (“aurora borealis, northern lights”)
  • gealán gréine (“spell of sunshine”)
  • tine ghealáin (“will o' the wisp, lightning, phosphorescence”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of gealán
radical lenition eclipsis
gealán ghealán ngealán

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

References

  1. ^ “gealán”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “gelán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 133

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