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Irish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Old Irish gláed (“a shout, a loud call”).
Noun
glao m (genitive singular glao, nominative plural glaonna)
- call, shout
- Synonym: scairt
Declension
Alternative forms
Related terms
- glaoigh (“call; cry out, shout; call for, invoke, summon”, verb)
Etymology 2
Verb
glao
- present subjunctive analytic of glaoigh
Alternative forms
Mutation
Irish mutation
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Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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glao
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ghlao
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nglao
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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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Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “glao”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 gláed”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language