gluais
Irish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle Irish glúais, from Old Irish glúas (“gloss, commentary, explanation”), from Late Latin glōssa (“gloss”), from Ancient Greek γλῶσσα (glôssa, “tongue, language, an obsolete or foreign word requiring explanation”).
Noun
gluais f (genitive singular gluaise, nominative plural gluaiseanna)
- comment, remark
- gloss
- glossary
- movement
- (obsolete) device, contrivance (mechanical device to perform a certain task)
Declension
Bare forms
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Forms with the definite article
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Etymology 2
From Old Irish glúasid (“moves, stirs, sets in motion; incites, influences; proceeds, moves, goes”).
Verb
gluais (present analytic gluaiseann, future analytic gluaisfidh, verbal noun gluaiseacht, past participle gluaiste)
Conjugation
* indirect relative
† archaic or dialect form
‡‡ dependent form used with particles that trigger eclipsis
Derived terms
- gluaiseacht (“motion; movement; passage; power”)
- gluaisrothar (“motorbicycle; motorcycle”)
Mutation
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
gluais | ghluais | ngluais |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish glúasid (“move, proceed”).
Verb
gluais (past ghluais, future gluaisidh, verbal noun gluasad, past participle gluaiste)
Derived terms
- gluaisneachd (“motion, movement”)
- Irish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Irish terms inherited from Middle Irish
- Irish terms derived from Middle Irish
- Irish terms inherited from Old Irish
- Irish terms derived from Old Irish
- Irish terms derived from Late Latin
- Irish terms derived from Ancient Greek
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- Irish terms with obsolete senses
- Irish second-declension nouns
- Irish verbs
- Irish first-conjugation verbs of class A
- Scottish Gaelic terms inherited from Old Irish
- Scottish Gaelic terms derived from Old Irish
- Scottish Gaelic lemmas
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