gormghlas

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Irish

Etymology

From gorm (“blue”) +‎ glas (“green”).

Adjective

gormghlas (genitive singular masculine gormghlais, genitive singular feminine gormghlaise, plural gormghlasa, comparative gormghlaise)

  1. blue-green; sea-green, aquamarine
  2. blue-grey
  3. azure

Declension

Declension of gormghlas
singular plural (m/f)
Positive masculine feminine (strong noun) (weak noun)
nominative gormghlas ghormghlas gormghlasa;
ghormghlasa2
vocative ghormghlais gormghlasa
genitive gormghlaise gormghlasa gormghlas
dative gormghlas;
ghormghlas1 		ghormghlas;
ghormghlais (archaic) 		gormghlasa;
ghormghlasa2
Comparative níos gormghlaise
Superlative is gormghlaise

1 When the preceding noun is lenited and governed by the definite article.
2 When the preceding noun ends in a slender consonant.

Noun

gormghlas m (genitive singular gormghlais)

  1. blue-green
    Synonym: gormuaine
  2. (geology) azure

Declension

Declension of gormghlas (first declension, no plural)
bare forms
case singular
nominative gormghlas
vocative a ghormghlais
genitive gormghlais
dative gormghlas
forms with the definite article
case singular
nominative an gormghlas
genitive an ghormghlais
dative leis an ngormghlas
don ghormghlas

Mutation

Mutated forms of gormghlas
radical lenition eclipsis
gormghlas ghormghlas ngormghlas

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

References

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