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Irish
Etymology
From Middle Irish *glicer attested in glicerglúin (“knock-kneed”).
Pronunciation
Noun
gliogar m (genitive singular gliogair, nominative plural gliogair)
- crock (old or broken-down vehicle)
- rattle (sound made by loose objects shaking or vibrating against one another)
- prattle (silly, childish talk; babble)
Declension
Mutation
| Irish mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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Eclipsis
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| gliogar
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ghliogar
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ngliogar
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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
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “gligar”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “gliogar”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN