gléineach

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Irish

Etymology

From gléine (“clearness, clarity, lucidity, transparence, brightness; resolution, definition”) +‎ -ach (adjectival suffix).

Adjective

gléineach (genitive singular masculine gléinigh, genitive singular feminine gléiní, plural gléineacha, comparative gléiní)

  1. clear, lucid, transparent
  2. bright, shining, vivid

Declension

Declension of gléineach
Singular Plural (m/f)
Positive Masculine Feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
Nominative gléineach ghléineach gléineacha;
ghléineacha²
Vocative ghléinigh gléineacha
Genitive gléiní gléineacha gléineach
Dative gléineach;
ghléineach¹ 		ghléineach;
ghléinigh (archaic) 		gléineacha;
ghléineacha²
Comparative níos gléiní
Superlative is gléiní

¹ When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
² When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
gléineach ghléineach ngléineach
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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