giollacht

giollacht

Irish

Alternative forms

• giollachan, giollaíocht
• giollaidheacht, giollaigheacht, giolluigheacht (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old Irish gillacht; surface analysis giolla +‎ -acht.

Pronunciation

• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈɟɨ̞l̪ˠa(x)t̪ˠ/

Noun

giollacht f (genitive singular giollachta)

1. attendance (state of attending)
2. service (act of being of assistance to someone)
3. guiding, guidance (act or process of guiding)
4. tending (looking after)

Declension

Declension of giollacht

Third declension

Bare forms (no plural for this noun): Case Singular Nominative giollacht Vocative a ghiollacht Genitive giollachta Dative giollacht

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Nominative an ghiollacht Genitive na giollachta Dative leis an ngiollacht don ghiollacht

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
giollacht	ghiollacht	ngiollacht
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

• “giollacht” at the Historical Irish Corpus, 1600–1926 of the Royal Irish Academy.
• “giollaiḋeċt” in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1st ed., 1904, by Patrick S. Dinneen, page 363.
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “gillacht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “gillaidecht”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• "giollacht" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 38