gealán

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Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

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gealán m (genitive singular gealáin, nominative plural gealáin)

  1. gleam (indistinct, small or short-lived appearance of light; indistinct sign of something), flash
    gealán dóchaisgleam 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 gealáinflash of lightning
  7. white (of an egg, of the eye)

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Derived terms

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Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
gealán ghealán ngealán
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

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  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 (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 133

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