glao

Irish

Etymology 1

From Old Irish gláed (“a shout, a loud call”).

Noun

glao m (genitive singular glao, nominative plural glaonna)

1. call, shout

Declension

Declension of glao

Fourth declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative glao glaonna Vocative a ghlao a ghlaonna Genitive glao glaonna Dative glao glaonna

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an glao na glaonna Genitive an ghlao na nglaonna Dative leis an nglao don ghlao leis na glaonna

Alternative forms

• glaodh (obsolete)

Related terms

• glaoigh (“call; cry out, shout; call for, invoke, summon”, verb)

Etymology 2

Verb

glao

1. present subjunctive analytic of glaoigh

Alternative forms

• glaodha (obsolete)

References

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “glao”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 gláed”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language