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Irish
Etymology
From gall (“foreign”) + cnó (“nut”).
Noun
gallchnó m (genitive singular gallchnó, nominative plural gallchnónna)
- walnut
- Synonyms: cnó francach, cnó gallda
Declension
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| gallchnó
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ghallchnó
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ngallchnó
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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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Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “gallchnó”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “gallchnó”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
- “gallchnó”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024