gluaiseacht

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Irish

Etymology

From gluais +‎ -eacht. Compare Old Irish glúasacht.

Noun

gluaiseacht f (genitive singular gluaiseachta, nominative plural gluaiseachtaí)

verbal noun of gluais (“move”)
Synonym: gluais
movement
1. motion
2. impulse
3. rhythm
4. (politics) organized movement
5. (music) movement
passage
power

Declension

Declension of gluaiseacht (third declension)

bare forms
case	singular	plural
nominative	gluaiseacht	gluaiseachtaí
vocative	a ghluaiseacht	a ghluaiseachtaí
genitive	gluaiseachta	gluaiseachtaí
dative	gluaiseacht	gluaiseachtaí

forms with the definite article
case	singular	plural
nominative	an ghluaiseacht	na gluaiseachtaí
genitive	na gluaiseachta	na ngluaiseachtaí
dative	leis an ngluaiseacht don ghluaiseacht	leis na gluaiseachtaí

Derived terms

gluaiseacht bheartaithe (“set play”)
gluaiseacht chogaíochta (“war machine”)
gluaiseacht éacúiméineach (“ecumenical movement”)
gluaiseacht faoi choim (“the underground”)
gluaiseacht ilchríochach (“continental drift”)
gluaiseacht na mban (“women's movement”)
gluaiseacht na saoirse (“liberation movement”)
gluaiseacht phionsúir (“pincer movement”)
gluaiseacht síochána (“peace movement”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of *gluaiseacht*
radical	lenition	eclipsis
gluaiseacht	ghluaiseacht	ngluaiseacht

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

Further reading

Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “gluaiseacht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “glúasacht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “gluaiseacht”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
“gluaiseacht”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025

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