From Old Church Slavonic глаголъ (glagolŭ, “word; speech”) + -ach.
Glagalach (genitive singular masculine Glagalaigh, genitive singular feminine Glagalaí, plural Glagalacha, not comparable)
singular | plural (m/f) | |||
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Positive | masculine | feminine | (strong noun) | (weak noun) |
nominative | Glagalach | Ghlagalach | Glagalacha; Ghlagalacha2 | |
vocative | Ghlagalaigh | Glagalacha | ||
genitive | Glagalaí | Glagalacha | Glagalach | |
dative | Glagalach; Ghlagalach1 |
Ghlagalach; Ghlagalaigh (archaic) |
Glagalacha; Ghlagalacha2 | |
Comparative | níos Glagalaí | |||
Superlative | is Glagalaí |
1 When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
2 When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.
radical | lenition | eclipsis |
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Glagalach | Ghlagalach | nGlagalach |
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.