glacadh

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Irish

Etymology 1

From Old Irish glacad, verbal noun of glacaid.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

glacadh m (genitive singular glactha)

  1. verbal noun of glac
    Synonym: glacan
  2. acceptance
  3. (electronics, law) reception
  4. handling, grasping; seizure
Declension
Declension of glacadh (irregular, no plural)
bare forms
case singular
nominative glacadh
vocative a ghlacadh
genitive glactha
dative glacadh
forms with the definite article
case singular
nominative an glacadh
genitive an ghlactha
dative leis an nglacadh
don ghlacadh

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

Autonomous past form:

Third-person imperative form:

Verb

glacadh

  1. inflection of glac:
    1. autonomous past
    2. third-person singular imperative

Mutation

Mutated forms of glacadh
radical lenition eclipsis
glacadh ghlacadh nglacadh

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

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “glacad”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 125
  3. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 411, page 135

Further reading

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish glacad, verbal noun of glacaid.

Pronunciation

Noun

glacadh m (genitive singular glacaidh, plural glacaidhean)

  1. verbal noun of glac
  2. capture, seizure
  3. grasp

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutation of glacadh
radical lenition
glacadh ghlacadh

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

References

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “glacadh”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “glacad”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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