gléas
Appearance
Irish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Old Irish glés,[2] ultimately from Proto-Celtic *gleiwos (“shining, clear”). Cognate with Scottish Gaelic gleus.
Noun
[edit]gléas m (genitive singular gléis, nominative plural gléasanna)
- device, appliance, apparatus, contraption, contrivance, instrument, machine, utensil
- measure (action to achieve some purpose)
- apparel
- gear (equipment, paraphernalia)
- (music) key
- (fishing) tackle
- (vulgar) cock, dick (penis)
- (vulgar, derogatory) asshole, dickhead, wanker
Declension
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Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]From Old Irish glésaid (“to adjust, arrange”), from glés.[3]
Verb
[edit]gléas (present analytic gléasann, future analytic gléasfaidh, verbal noun gléasadh, past participle gléasta)
Inflection
[edit]conjugation of gléas (first conjugation – A)
* indirect relative
† archaic or dialect form
‡‡ dependent form used with particles that trigger eclipsis
Etymology 3
[edit]Noun
[edit]gléas m (genitive singular gléis)
- (uncountable) sheen, gloss, polish
Declension
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Mutation
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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
[edit]- ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 134
- ^ 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
Further reading
[edit]- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “gléas”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
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