gealtachas

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Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish geltachas (panic, terror, madness), from geltach (crazy, timid, skittish), from gelt (madman, one who goes mad from terror). By surface analysis, gealtach +‎ -as.

Noun

gealtachas m (genitive singular gealtachais)

  1. lunacy
  2. panic

Declension

Declension of gealtachas (first declension, no plural)
bare forms
case singular
nominative gealtachas
vocative a ghealtachais
genitive gealtachais
dative gealtachas
forms with the definite article
case singular
nominative an gealtachas
genitive an ghealtachais
dative leis an ngealtachas
don ghealtachas

Mutation

Mutated forms of gealtachas
radical lenition eclipsis
gealtachas ghealtachas ngealtachas

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