gealán

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Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish gelán.[2] By surface analysis, geal (“bright”) +‎ -án.

Pronunciation

Noun

gealán m (genitive singular gealáin, nominative plural gealáin)

  1. gleam (indistinct, small or short-lived appearance of light; indistinct sign of something), flash
    gealán dóchais ― gleam of hope
  2. aurora
  3. whiting (fine white chalk)
  4. (art, photography) highlight (strongly illuminated area; hair dyed a different color)
  5. (dated) brightness
  6. (literary) lightning
    saighead gealáin ― flash of lightning
  7. white (of an egg, of the eye)

Declension

Declension of gealán (first declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative gealán gealáin
vocative a ghealáin a ghealána
genitive gealáin gealán
dative gealán gealáin
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an gealán na gealáin
genitive an ghealáin na ngealán
dative leis an ngealán
don ghealán 		leis na gealáin

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Mutation

Mutated forms of gealán
radical lenition eclipsis
gealán ghealán ngealán

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ “gealán”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “gelán”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 133

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