giollacht

Irish

Alternative forms

  • giollachan, giollaíocht
  • giollaidheacht, giollaigheacht, giolluigheacht (obsolete)[1][2]

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • (Ulster) IPA(key): /ˈɟɨ̞l̪ˠa(x)t̪ˠ/[4]

Noun

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

Declension of giollacht (third declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative giollacht
vocative a ghiollacht
genitive giollachta
dative giollacht
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an ghiollacht
genitive na giollachta
dative leis an ngiollacht
don ghiollacht

Mutation

Mutated forms of giollacht
radical lenition eclipsis
giollacht ghiollacht ngiollacht

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

References

  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

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