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gléas

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Irish

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Old Irish glés,[2] ultimately from Proto-Celtic *gleiwos (shining, clear). Cognate with Scottish Gaelic gleus.

Noun

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gléas m (genitive singular gléis, nominative plural gléasanna)

  1. device, appliance, apparatus, contraption, contrivance, instrument, machine, utensil
  2. measure (action to achieve some purpose)
  3. apparel
  4. gear (equipment, paraphernalia)
  5. (music) key
  6. (fishing) tackle
  7. (vulgar) cock, dick (penis)
  8. (vulgar, derogatory) asshole, dickhead, wanker
Declension
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Declension of gléas (first declension)
bare forms
case singular plural
nominative gléas gléasanna
vocative a ghléis a ghléasanna
genitive gléis gléasanna
dative gléas gléasanna
forms with the definite article
case singular plural
nominative an gléas na gléasanna
genitive an ghléis na ngléasanna
dative leis an ngléas
don ghléas
leis na gléasanna
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

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From Old Irish glésaid (to adjust, arrange), from glés.[3]

Verb

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gléas (present analytic gléasann, future analytic gléasfaidh, verbal noun gléasadh, past participle gléasta)

  1. (transitive) adjust, arrange
    1. fit out, equip
    2. dress, array
    3. prepare, make ready
Inflection
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Etymology 3

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From English glaze.

Noun

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gléas m (genitive singular gléis)

  1. (uncountable) sheen, gloss, polish
Declension
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Declension of gléas (first declension, no plural)
bare forms
case singular
nominative gléas
vocative a ghléis
genitive gléis
dative gléas
forms with the definite article
case singular
nominative an gléas
genitive an ghléis
dative leis an ngléas
don ghléas

Mutation

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Mutated forms of gléas
radical lenition eclipsis
gléas ghléas ngléas

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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  1. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 134
  2. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “glés”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  3. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “glésaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Further reading

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