glé
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Irish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Irish glé, from Proto-Celtic *glēwos.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]glé
- clear, bright (not muted or pale), vivid (bright, intense or colorful)
- Synonym: gléineach
- clear, limpid, pure
- clear, lucid (easily understood), pellucid
- Synonym: soiléir
Declension
[edit]Declension of glé
Singular | Plural (m/f) | |||
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Positive | Masculine | Feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
Nominative | glé | ghlé | glé; ghlé² | |
Vocative | ghlé | glé | ||
Genitive | glé | glé | glé | |
Dative | glé; ghlé¹ |
ghlé | glé; ghlé² | |
Comparative | níos glé | |||
Superlative | is glé |
¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Mutation
[edit]Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
glé | ghlé | nglé |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
[edit]- “glé”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 glé”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “glé”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 369
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “glé”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 21
Scottish Gaelic
[edit]Adverb
[edit]glé
Mutation
[edit]Scottish Gaelic mutation | |
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Radical | Lenition |
glé | ghlé |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Categories:
- Irish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Irish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ǵʰley-
- Irish terms inherited from Old Irish
- Irish terms derived from Old Irish
- Irish terms inherited from Proto-Celtic
- Irish terms derived from Proto-Celtic
- Irish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Irish lemmas
- Irish adjectives
- Scottish Gaelic lemmas
- Scottish Gaelic adverbs
- Scottish Gaelic terms spelled with É
- Scottish Gaelic terms spelled with ◌́
- Scottish Gaelic superseded forms