galar

Galician

Etymology 1

galo (“rooster”) +‎ -ar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡaˈlaɾ/, (western) /ħaˈlaɾ/

Verb

1. (transitive) to fertilize the rooster a hen

Etymology 2

Probably from Suevic *galan (to sing, to charm spells), from Proto-Germanic *galaną (“to roop, sing, charm”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰel- (“to shout, scream, charm away”)

Verb

1. (transitive) to bewitch

   Synonyms: enmeigar, enfeitizar

Derived terms

• galra

References

• Template:R:DDLG

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Irish

Alternative forms

• galra

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡal̪ˠəɾˠ/

Noun

galar m (genitive singular galair, nominative plural galair)

1. (pathology) sickness, illness, disease, infection

   Proverb: Dhá dtrian galair le hoíche. ― The risk of illness is greatest at night; sickness is most intense at night.

   Synonym: othras

2. affliction, misery

Declension

Declension of galar

First declension

Bare forms: Case Singular Plural Nominative galar galair Vocative a ghalair a ghalara Genitive galair galar Dative galar galair

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Plural Nominative an galar na galair Genitive an ghalair na ngalar Dative leis an ngalar don ghalar leis na galair

Derived terms

• galar béil (“thrush”)
• galar breac (na spéire) (“smallpox”)
• galar buí (“jaundice”)
• galar cam, casta (“staggers (in sheep)”)
• galar carrach (“scurvy”)
• galar cleiteach (“moulting”)
• galar creathach (“ague”)
• galar crúibe is béil (“foot-and-mouth disease”)
• galar crupáin, crupánach (“aphosphorosis”)
• galar dubhach, dúchroíoch (“melancholy; melancholia”)
• galar easpa (“deficiency disease”)
• galar gabhálach, tógálach (“contagion”, literally “communicable disease”)
• galar garbh (“botts”)
• galar gasta (“flux”)
• galar gnéas-tarchurtha (“sexually transmitted disease”)
• galar na gcás (“perplexity”)
• galar scrathach (“scab (in sheep)”)
• galar támhach (“catalepsy”)
• galar titimeach, Póil (“falling-sickness, epilepsy”)
• galar trua (“pine disease (in cattle, sheep)”)
• galar véinéireach (“venereal disease”)
• galareagla f (“hypochondria”)
• galareolaíoch (“pathological”, adjective)
• galareolaíocht f (“pathology”)
• galareolaí m (“pathologist”)
• galarghinteach (“morbific”, adjective)
• galrach (“diseased, infected; sickly, morbid”, adjective)
• galracht f (“sickliness, morbidity”)
• galraigh (“infect, inoculate; become diseased, sicken”)

 

Related terms

• galareaglach (“hypochondriac”, adjective)
• galrachán m (“sickly creature or thing”)
• galrú m (“infection; inoculation”)

 

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
galar	ghalar	ngalar
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “galar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “galar”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “galar”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

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Noun

galar m (genitive singular galair, plural galaran)

1. disease, sickness, ailment, disorder

   Synonyms: euslaint, tinneas, trioblaid

Derived terms

• galar-ceàirde (“occupational disease”)
• galar-fuail (“diabetes”)
• galar-pearraide (“parrot fever, psittacosis”)

 

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Lenition
galar	ghalar
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.