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Irish
Etymology
From Middle Irish gallúinech (“soap”).[3]
Pronunciation
Noun
gallúnach f (genitive singular gallúnaí, nominative plural gallúnacha)
- soap
- Synonym: sópa
- (familiar) flattery, cajolery
Declension
Derived terms
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| gallúnach
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ghallúnach
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ngallúnach
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| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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References
- ^ “gallúnach”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- ^ Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “gallaoineach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “gallúinech”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 120
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “gallúnach”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “gallúnach”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “gallúnach”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024