gluaiseacht

Irish

Etymology

From gluais +‎ -eacht. Compare Old Irish glúasacht.

Noun

gluaiseacht f (genitive singular gluaiseachta, nominative plural gluaiseachtaí)

1. verbal noun of gluais (“move”)

   Synonym: gluais

2. movement
   1. motion
   2. impulse
   3. rhythm
   4. (politics) organized movement
   5. (music) movement
3. passage
4. power

Declension

Declension of gluaiseacht

Third declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative gluaiseacht gluaiseachtaí Vocative a ghluaiseacht a ghluaiseachtaí Genitive gluaiseachta gluaiseachtaí Dative gluaiseacht gluaiseachtaí

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an ghluaiseacht na gluaiseachtaí Genitive na gluaiseachta na ngluaiseachtaí Dative leis an ngluaiseacht don ghluaiseacht leis na gluaiseachtaí

Derived terms

• gluaiseacht bheartaithe (“set play”)
• gluaiseacht chogaíochta (“war machine”)
• gluaiseacht éacúiméineach (“ecumenical movement”)
• gluaiseacht faoi choim (“the underground”)
• gluaiseacht ilchríochach (“continental drift”)
• gluaiseacht na mban (“women's movement”)
• gluaiseacht na saoirse (“liberation movement”)
• gluaiseacht phionsúir (“pincer movement”)
• gluaiseacht síochána (“peace movement”)

 

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
gluaiseacht	ghluaiseacht	ngluaiseacht
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “gluaiseacht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “glúasacht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “gluaiseacht”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “gluaiseacht”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024