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Scottish Gaelic
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Old Irish glés; cognate with Irish gléas.
Noun
gleus m or f (genitive singular gleusa or gleòis, plural gleusan or gleòis)
- order, manner, condition
- A bheil a h-uile rud air ghleus? ― Is everything in order?
- mood, humour
- (music) key
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From Old Irish glésaid (“adjusts, prepares, arranges, makes ready (for use or action)”), from glés, ultimately from Proto-Celtic *glēwos (“shining, clear”).
Verb
gleus (past ghleus, future gleusaidh, verbal noun gleusadh, past participle gleuste)
- get ready, prepare, put in order
- adjust (a machine)
- (music) tune
Mutation
| Scottish Gaelic mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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| gleus |
ghleus
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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
- Edward Dwelly (1911) “gleus”, 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), “glés”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “glésaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language