glaoch

glaoch

Irish

Alternative forms

• glaochan f
• glaodhach m (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old Irish gláedach (“calling, crying out, shouting”), verbal noun of gláedid (“cries out”).

Noun

glaoch m (genitive singular glaoite or glaoigh)

1. verbal noun of glaoigh
2. calling, call

Declension

(as verbal noun):

Declension of glaoch

Irregular

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative glaoch Vocative a ghlaoch Genitive glaoite Dative glaoch

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Nominative an glaoch Genitive an ghlaoite Dative leis an nglaoch don ghlaoch

(as regular noun):

Declension of glaoch

First declension

Bare forms (no plural of this noun) Case Singular Nominative glaoch Vocative a ghlaoigh Genitive glaoigh Dative glaoch

Forms with the definite article: Case Singular Nominative an glaoch Genitive an ghlaoigh Dative leis an nglaoch don ghlaoch

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
glaoch	ghlaoch	nglaoch
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

• "glaoch" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• “1 gláedach” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.