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Irish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle Irish gillacht. By surface analysis, giolla + -acht.
Pronunciation
Noun
giollacht f (genitive singular giollachta)
- attendance (state of attending)
- service (act of being of assistance to someone)
- guiding, guidance (act or process of guiding)
- tending (looking after)
Declension
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| giollacht
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ghiollacht
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ngiollacht
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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
- ^ “giollacht”, in Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926, Royal Irish Academy
- ^ G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “gillaidecht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “gillacht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 38
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